It was there for good reason.
We're not gonna deal with lessphp or dotless bugs.
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<h4>Compiling Bootstrap's LESS files</h4>
- <p>If you work with Bootstrap's uncompiled source code, you need to compile the LESS files to produce usable CSS files. We officially support <a href="http://twitter.github.io/recess/">Recess</a>, which is Twitter's CSS hinter based on <a href="http://lesscss.org">less.js</a>.</p>
+ <p>If you work with Bootstrap's uncompiled source code, you need to compile the LESS files to produce usable CSS files. For LESS compilation, we only officially support <a href="http://twitter.github.io/recess/">Recess</a>, which is Twitter's CSS hinter based on <a href="http://lesscss.org">less.js</a>.</p>
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