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-Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Geographic Information System that
-runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS lets you browse and create
-map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats
-(e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff).
+Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Geographic Information System
+that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS lets you browse
+and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial
+data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff).
-This requires proj, geos, gdal, gsl, numpy, and qwt.
+This requires proj, geos, gdal, gsl, numpy, and qwt.
Optional dependencies include grass, postgresql, postgis, and gpsbabel.
+
+If you want to build the optional QGIS Server, you also need fcgi;
+see README.server for more details.