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 # foot
 
-**foot** is a Wayland terminal emulator.
+**foot** is a fast Wayland terminal emulator.
 
 
 ## Requirements
 
+### Running
+
 * fontconfig
 * freetype
 * pixman
 * wayland (_client_ and _cursor_ libraries)
-* wayland protocols
 * xkbcommon
 
 
+### Building
+
+In addition to the dev variant of the packages above, you need:
+
+* meson
+* ninja
+* wayland protocols
+* scdoc
+
+
 ## Fonts
 
 **foot** supports all fonts that can be loaded by freetype, including