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To enable splitting of CamelCase words take a look in the SlackBuild
file. This feature is disabled by default.
-Optional dependencies are antiword, unrtf, and exiftool.
+antiword, unrtf, untex and exiftool are runtime dependencies. You can
+build and run recoll without it, but recoll will keep nagging you about
+the missing helper tools. Without those tools recoll will be not usable
+for most people anyway, and these tools are quite small. But if you want
+to go without any of them you can do so at the time of writing. Your
+mileage may vary of course in the future.