ImageMagick dependency chain [Re: Why samba-client not installed by default?]

[Reindl Harald]

Am 20.12.2012 22:47, schrieb Matthew Miller:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 04:08:27PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> Anyway, it is true that there is some dep chain from installing ImageMagick
>> on a bare server which brings in colord, libX11, libwayland-client and
>> -server, and more. However, I don't think colord is to blame -- it just adds
>> color-filesystem, lcms2, libgudev1m, libgusbm, libusbx, and
>> shared-color-profiles -- all to be expected. (And polkit + js, which was
>> already installed on this system but technically didn't "need" to be, for
>> whatever value of need.)
> 
> mesa-libEGL is required by cairo, and that pulls in Wayland.
> 
> ImageMagick itself pulls in a bunch of stuff directly, including X11 libs,
> which makes sense because it includes utilities which are X clients.
> Possibly the chain could be broken by packinging some utilities like
> `display` separately, but, I think it'd actually be a lot of work, because I
> note that for example `convert` is linked against the same stuff. (I thought
> for a second that they were hardlinked versions of the same binary, but
> apparently not.)

all these deps like gtk3 where not there for years




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