Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] tracker needs imagemagick

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2007/1/10, Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd gentoo org>:
> Hi.
>
> While trying to come up with a patch for the thumbnailer, I noticed that
> the image thumbnailing makes use of 'convert'.  This utility is actually
> provided by imagemagick.  The attached patch adds in a check for
> imagemagick (>=5.2.1) so that this dependency can also be tracked.

imagemagick is an (optional) runtime dependency, only needed if
thumbnailing is activated (which isn't by default), it's not a build
dependency. So imho I think it should *not* be added as a configure
check.
It would be a good idea though to add imagemagick to "Additional
recommended packages" in the README file. With the remark that it is
needed for creating thumbnails (as is evince-thumbnailer, so evince
should be added to that list, too)


Cheers,
Michael