Recent wordpress, huge compiling effort, needed?

[Michael Grimm]

Kurt Jaeger <pi at opsec.eu> wrote:

>> The recent update of www/wordpress ended in a compilation 'nightmare', because this port newly depends on ImageMagick:
> [...]
>> 1) Why does one need this dependency?
> 
> The wordpress install script checks if imagemagick is available, and
> I'm not sure it's still optional.


The only option available currently is whether to build/install the documentation

> Does your blog do lots of picture resizings etc ?

No. I am running a rather static website, only. No blog.

>> 3) If 2) is a safe way to use wordpress remotely from a web browser, then would it possible to remove the dependency by an option? (CC'd this mail to maintainer)
> 
> Give it a try to use wordpress without that RUN_DEPENDS. If it
> can be installed without it, and you don't need it...

I did install it successfully, already, and everything is working as usual. But I wonder if this might break something I didn't run about my tests a couple of minutes ago.

Regards,
Michael