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+## Libraries
+
+### included in repo
+
+* libfuse: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse (heavily modified fork of v2.x)
+* ghc::filesystem: https://github.com/gulrak/filesystem
+* nonstd::optional: https://github.com/martinmoene/optional-lite
+* fmt: https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt