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@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ zathura is a pdf viewer based on the poppler pdf rendering library
 Requirements
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 poppler-glib (0.12.3)
-cairo (1.8.8)
 gtk2 (2.18.6)
 glib2 (2.22.4)