cvs commit: ports/graphics/ImageMagick Makefile pkg-plist ports/graphics/ImageMagick/files patch-module-path

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Sun Oct 7 01:04:56 PDT 2007


On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:32:09AM +0000, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>   This port has too many options -- perhaps, support for the most common
>   things (like PNG, JPEG, and GIF) should be permanent...

+1.  I've recently come to conclusion that overly-fine grained
dependency control usually brings more evil than good.  While certainly
there is a point making heavy deps like X, Qt, KDE/Gnome, etc. optional
(and maybe even disabled by default), these little things like graphic
format handling is overkill.  libjpeg/png/gif is probably installed in
90% systems out there, so what's the point?

./danfe


More information about the cvs-ports mailing list