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-uname=`uname`
-echo "Most of packages in recommends can be safely ignored, they are written for Debian/Ubuntu based distributions."
-echo "CentOS doesn't have most of packages listed in this file."
-
-command -v \youtube-dl >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "shell-things contains youtube-dl alias for automatically setting video title as name, so you might want to install youtube-dl."; }
-command -v \flip >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "WARNING: flip isn't installed. You might want to install it, because it's used in line ending conversions."; }
-
-if [ $uname = "linux" ]
-then
-	command -v \gtk-redshift >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "xsessionrc tries to start gtk-redshift automatically on boot, so you might want to install it (or redshift in some distributions)."; }
-fi
-
-if [ ! -f /usr/share/doc/gnupg-curl/copyright ]
-then
-    echo "You might want to install gnupg-curl. It allows you to use shortened URLs with gpg1." && echo "If you aren't on Linux, you can ignore this."
-fi
-
-if [ ! -f /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/copyright ]
-then
-    echo "You might want to install popularity-contest. See http://popcon.debian.org/" && echo "If you aren't on Linux you can ignore this."
-fi
-
-command -v \rot13 >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "rot13 was removed from bashrc & zshrc, because it's provided by bsdgames. You might want to install it."; }