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@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ some minimal glibc compatibility.
 
 Some of these things are taken from Alpine Linux's musl package.
 
-`libintl.a` is provided so that programs which specify `-lintl` when linking
-don't fail, but use musl's `libintl` implementation anyway. musl itself uses
-the same method for `libm`, `librt`, `libpthread`, `libcrypt`...
 
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