Re: Can we make X11 optional for libvips?

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:44:24 +0100, atomicules wrote:
> However, the very reason I first added this [libvps]
> to WIP is because I wanted a lighter weight alternative to ImageMagick
> that didn't require X11. I notice that libvips now needs X11 because
> of `.include·"../../print/poppler/buildlink3.mk`. Can I/we move this
> to `options.mk`?

I feel your pain... and went, and made it an option. But your 'lighter 
weight' is my

% pwd
/u/sources/pkgsrc/graphics/libvips
% make CLEANDEPENDS=yes clean | wc -l
     160
%

dependencies, and it looks like one of these also depends* on poppler. 
So I won't commit the change at this point. You could, if you feel like 
it, track that down, and we can see what (if any) can be done about it.

Cheerio,
Hauke


* does pkgsrc have a quick and easy way of finding out what package in 
the dependency tree brings in a certain (potentially unwanted) 
dependency?

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