[semiquaver]

When the author says it “has no dependencies” they are referring to build time dependencies (i.e. development headers) and runtime library dependencies (dynamic libraries that will be linked and used at runtime).

In this case the function of the program is to hook a library function in `libpam` using eBPF so it has libpam as a “dependency” in roughly the same way that a program which converts wav to mp3 depends on “the input wav file”.

Given that this is a somewhat unusual way to depend on a `.so` file it’s reasonable for there to be some ambiguity in the language here.