Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 08:04:56 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/ImageMagick Makefile pkg-plist ports/graphics/ImageMagick/files patch-module-path Message-ID: <20071007080456.GA95946@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200710050532.l955W9r6051059@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200710050532.l955W9r6051059@repoman.freebsd.org>
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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
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