But does installing Imagemagick and Perlmagick really need to be in the "advanced" category?
Well, the original poster had a detailed set of requirements that Fink cannot easily fulfill - he wanted to use a specific set of libraries that he'd already installed under /usr/local. I'd say that yes, that level of fine-grained control is "advanced." It's beyond what one can reasonably expect of a package manager like Fink.
What's more, PerlMagick is well-known for being horribly difficult to configure and install. It wraps around a complex C library, which in turn depends on a variety of other libraries - you can easily find yourself lost in a twisty maze of dependencies, all alike.
So I offer my sympathy to others who are going through this ordeal, and I beg the experts to come up with a better method, or at least better instructions.
PerlMagick does seem to come up fairly often. What do the rest of you think? Would you like to see a "Fat Camel" package of graphics modules? Are there any other modules you'd like to see in it, aside from PerlMagick and Imager, which have already been mentioned?
We probably shouldn't clutter the list with module requests, so email those to me privately, and I'll summarize to the list in a few days.
sherm--
