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INSTALL.md is inconsistent in its treatment of optional dependencies #5168
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On the one hand, INSTALL.md tells you to install synapse with
pip install matrix-synapse[all]
. On the other hand, it lists prerequisites assuming that you are just installing the base functionality - and even mentionslibxml2-dev
under the 'URL previews' section, when in reality you couldn't have got that far without installing it.The 'optional dependencies' feature doesn't seem to have a great deal of value any more, since we always tell people to install with
[all]
. Perhaps we should just make the optional dependencies mandatory, and if you don't have alibpq-dev
or alibxml-dev
on your platform, sucks to be you?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: