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@@ -5,10 +5,12 @@ awesome is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.
 Requirements
 ------------
 In order to build awesome itself, you need header files and libs of:
-  - cmake 2.6
-  - Xlib, xcb and xcb-util (>= 0.3.0)
-  - Lua 5.1
-  - cairo
+  - cmake (>= 2.6)
+  - Xlib
+  - xcb (>= 1.1)
+  - xcb-util (>= 0.3)
+  - Lua (>= 5.1)
+  - cairo built with xcb support
   - pango and pangocairo
   - libev
   - glib