diff --git a/DEPS b/DEPS
index 33f7b659..96a3b823 100644
--- a/DEPS
+++ b/DEPS
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2010, Google Inc.
-# All rights reserved.
+# Copyright 2010, Google Inc. All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
@@ -27,18 +26,41 @@
 # (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
 # OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
-# We only use this file to ease the steps of generating projects after
-# syncing, if we use gclient. All dependencies are svn:externals instead.
-# If you're not using gclient, you need to run the gyp python script to
-# generate the projects.
-# This can be done by the following command (assuming current directory):
-#   src\tools\gyp\gyp.bat src\client\windows\breakpad_client.gyp
+# This is used to mimic the svn:externals mechanism for gclient (both Git and
+# SVN) based checkouts of Breakpad. As such, its use is entirely optional. If
+# using a manually managed SVN checkout as opposed to a gclient managed checkout
+# you can still use the hooks mechanism for generating project files by calling
+# 'gclient runhooks' rather than 'gclient sync'.
+
+deps = {
+  # Logging code.
+  "src/src/third_party/glog":
+    "http://google-glog.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@97",
+
+  # Testing libraries and utilities.
+  "src/src/testing": "http://googlemock.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@408",
+  "src/src/testing/gtest": "http://googletest.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@615",
+
+  # Protobuf.
+  "src/src/third_party/protobuf/protobuf":
+    "http://protobuf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@407",
+
+  # GYP project generator.
+  "src/src/tools/gyp": "http://gyp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@1472",
+
+  # Linux syscall support.
+  "src/src/third_party/lss":
+    "http://linux-syscall-support.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/lss@24",
+}
+
 hooks = [
   {
-    # A change to a .gyp, .gypi, or to GYP itself should run the generator.
+    # TODO(chrisha): Fix the GYP files so that they work without
+    # --no-circular-check.
     "pattern": ".",
     "action": ["python",
                "src/src/tools/gyp/gyp",
+               "--no-circular-check",
                "src/src/client/windows/breakpad_client.gyp"],
   },
 ]