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<p>libpangoft2 isn't a core lib to my understanding, so we can't just assume it will be provided by most Linux distributions. </p>
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<p>IMO it can be considered to be.  I'm not aware of any common distributions that don't come up packed with all GTK libraries, which depends on Pango, Cairo and whatnot.  IMO, Geany itself has no non-"core" hard dependencies, the only open that might not be is libvte on GTK2, but it's runtime-optional.</p>

<p>Plugins are a different story.</p>

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