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diff --git a/src/plugins/platforms/xcb/README b/src/plugins/platforms/xcb/README
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--- a/src/plugins/platforms/xcb/README
+++ b/src/plugins/platforms/xcb/README
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
Requires libxcb >= 1.5.
+PACKAGE DEPENDENCIES
+
Required packages:
libxcb1 libxcb1-dev libx11-xcb1 libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-image0 libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-shm0 libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-icccm1 libxcb-icccm1-dev libxcb-sync0 libxcb-sync0-dev libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxrender-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-glx0-dev
@@ -13,3 +15,9 @@ libxcb1 libxcb1-dev libx11-xcb1 libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-keysyms1-d
On Fedora, the following packages are required:
libxcb libxcb-devel libXrender libXrender-devel xcb-util-wm xcb-util-wm-devel xcb-util xcb-util-devel xcb-util-image xcb-util-image-devel xcb-util-keysyms xcb-util-keysyms-devel
+
+REDUCING RUNTIME DEPENDENCIES
+
+The '-qt-xcb' configure option can be used to get rid of most xcb- dependencies. Only libxcb will
+still be linked dynamically, since it will be most likely be pulled in via other dependencies anyway.
+This should allow for binaries that are portable across most modern Linux distributions.