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

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Thu Dec 20 23:16:54 UTC 2012


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:16:18PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> > 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

This will still need to be fixed at the ImageMagick level.

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