Which ImageMagick?
Jan Henrik Sylvester
me at janh.de
Mon Apr 27 16:52:45 UTC 2020
On 4/27/20 11:22 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> If I am not mistaken, now emacs cannot be installed at the same time
>> as for example kde5 (kdemultimedia, kdenlive, dvdauthor,
>> ImageMagick6), inkscape (ImageMagick6), or calligra (pstoedit,
>> ImageMagick6).
>
> Clearly your choice is different from mine. I found that most ports
> depended on ImageMagick 7, not 6. And since it's not a legacy
> version, it made sense to go that way.
Of course, personal choices vary, but according to FreshPorts, there are
5+4 ports requiring ImageMagick7 for libraries or run and there are
30+49 für ImageMagick6. Moreover, most of the ports requiring
ImageMagick7 are leaf ports while some of the ports requiring
ImageMagick6 are needed by some of the big chains like the one mentioned
above leading to kde5. Now emacs cannot coexist with many packages even
if you disregard build dependencies. That change broke many setups.
>> We already have some ports depending on ImageMagick7 and some on
>> ImageMagick6, but so far all the desktop application stick to
>> ImageMagick6. If they move one by one, there are many conflicts that
>> breaks desktops. Is that really the way to go?
>
> Yes. The desktops should migrate too.
That obviously needs some coordination.
Cheers,
Jan Henrik
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