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Re: graphics/ImageMagick: make dependencies optional



On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 07:38:00PM +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> On Sun 21 Oct 2018 at 15:53:55 +0000, nia wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 03:19:18PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > > So I'm in favor of adding the ghostscript option, against png/bzip2
> > > options (absent rationale), and just barely against tiff.
> > 
> > Main motivation for disabling tiff is, well, see `pkg_admin audit`.
> > It's also a rather unused format on the web.
> 
> For scanned documents it is somewhat common, either directly or embedded
> in a pdf.
> 
> -Olaf.
> -- 
> ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- "What good is a Ring of Power
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Yeah, but that's not my use case. I'm also aware of its popularity for scanned
documents, and it's why it should stay enabled by default (as it does with this
patch).

nia


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