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by jasonpeacock 624 days ago
Because most of those are dependencies required to build the actual dependencies.

There's (generally) 4 types of dependencies:

    - Toolchains (frameworks, compilers)
    - Build (headers and libraries)
    - Runtime (libraries)
    - Test (frameworks, headers, libraries)
And those dependencies all bring their own dependencies...