[tony.arnold: ImageMagick packaging problem]

[Tony Arnold]

Harold,

Thanks for the very quick and IMHO correct fix to this problem.

Regards,
Tony.

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> [Moving discussion to cygwin-apps]
> 
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>> A head's up for Harold.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> Btw, since this package relies on XFree86, shouldn't it live in the
>> XFree86 directory.
> 
> 
> Err... well, it depends on X mostly like the emacs X package does... it 
> links against it and one or two of the command-line apps uses it (mostly 
> to display images), but the majority of the command-line apps don't 
> actually display anything in X at all.  So yes, it does rely on it, but 
> it doesn't need a working X Server to be useful.  I think its really a 
> judgement call with this package as to where to put it; I put it where I 
> did... if anyone feels strongly about changing that, feel free to do so, 
> it will not upset me.
> 
>> ----- Forwarded message from Tony Arnold <tony.arnold> -----
>>
>> From: Tony Arnold
>> Subject: ImageMagick packaging problem
>> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:29:10 +0000
>>
>> I just downloaded and installed teh ImageMagick package. It installed 
>> fine, but when I tried to rung one of the command line tools such as 
>> identify or convert, it complained it could not find the configuration 
>> files in /usr/lib/ImageMagick.5.5.7 and on checking this directory 
>> does not exist. The readme for this package indicates this directiry 
>> tree should be included included in this package.
>>
>> I eventually discovered the libMagick-devel package which does include 
>> the above directory path.
>>
>> It seems to me that the pathe for the config files should either be 
>> included in the main package or the devel package should be a 
>> dependency of the main packge.
> 
> 
> Yes, it had been mentioned before that these were configuration files 
> that were needed at run-time by the libraries and that their location 
> had been changed.  However, we never fully answered our own questions 
> about what to do here, so the result was that they were never moved.  We 
> then started looking at using the GraphicsMagick package as a 
> replacement for ImageMagick, which diverted attention from this.
> 
> I have moved the files to the libMagick6 package from the 
> libMagick-devel package.  This solves the problem in the short term; the 
> long term problem of how to handle the fact that this is a versioned 
> directory remains open.
> 
> I will post a new version of the ImageMagick packages shortly.
> 
> Harold

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