[itsybitsycoder]

Agreed, I've had to compile pieces of C++ software that had dependencies on third party libraries for completely ridiculous trivial reasons. Like requiring OpenSSL for a project that's completely unrelated to networking/crypto just to be able to use its SHA-1 implementation to hash an image and check if it has changed from a previous version. 20+ dependencies later and it starts getting really annoying to compile that project for different platforms, because invariably there will be one little dependency that isn't supported because of some feature that's not even being used.