Am 29.12.2012 um 03:35 schrieb Daniel Macks: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:42:45 +0100, Peter Dyballa <[email protected]> > wrote: > There is also the question what sense the imagemagick2-svg package makes. It > contains effectively two files: >> >> -rwxr-xr-x 0 root admin 1430 26 Dez 00:56 >> ./sw/lib/ImageMagick-6.8.1/modules-Q16HDRI/coders/svg.la >> -rwxr-xr-x 0 root admin 74124 26 Dez 00:56 >> ./sw/lib/ImageMagick-6.8.1/modules-Q16HDRI/coders/svg.so >> >> It would make some sense to have sets ImageMagick package which either uses >> the ImageMagick code to handle SVG images or librsvg. > > It would seem that those two files are "the ImageMagick code to handle SVG > images", and that they have a number of non-trivial dependencies beyond those > of imagemagick itself. So if a user doesn't need svg support, he can avoid > installing that package and therefore not need to haul in a whole dependency > tree that would solely be used for a feature he doesn't want. That's the > whole point of having specialized support as modular plugins rather than > directly built into a monolithic binary.
In theory this might be true, but in reality there are no means available to build an ImageMagick with less dependencies. Leaving out this module you'd need to use librsvg (+1 dependency), not wanting SVG support you can leave out librsvg – and save some disk space by also leaving this package. Reasonable this is not. SVG is an XML container format which has inside well-known graphics formats. -- Greetings Pete UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
