Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] tracker needs imagemagick

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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)

yeah I agree

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