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@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Once installed, run `fish` from your current shell to try fish out!
 Running fish requires:
 
 * curses or ncurses (preinstalled on most \*nix systems)
-* some common \*nix system utilities (currently `mktemp` and `seq`), in addition to the basic POSIX utilities
+* some common \*nix system utilities (currently `mktemp`), in addition to the basic POSIX utilities (`cat`, `cut`, `dirname`, `ls`, `mkdir`, `mkfifo`, `rm`, `sort`, `tr`, `uname` and `sed` at least, but the full coreutils plus find, sed and awk is preferred)
 * gettext (library and `gettext` command), if compiled with translation support
 
 The following optional features also have specific requirements:
@@ -76,8 +76,7 @@ The following optional features also have specific requirements:
   `backports.lzma` module for Python 2.7
 * the `fish_config` web configuration tool requires Python (2.7+ or 3.3 +) and a web browser
 * system clipboard integration (with the default Ctrl-V and Ctrl-X bindings) require either the
-  `xsel` or `pbcopy`/`pbpaste` utilities
-* full completions for `yarn` and `bower` require the `jq` utility
+  `xsel`, `xclip`, `wl-copy`/`wl-paste` or `pbcopy`/`pbpaste` utilities
 * full completions for `yarn` and `npm` require the `all-the-package-names` NPM module
 
 ### Switching to fish