Headsup: new soname changing ImageMagick heading for F-10
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Mon Apr 28 16:52:05 UTC 2008
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "HdG" == Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> writes:
>
> HdG> "ImageMagick permits rendering text onto an image with X11
> HdG> fonts."
>
> That's rather... lame. I mean, we don't really even want to support
> core fonts any longer. And you don't need to link against X to use
> fontconfig and get proper font rendering.
>
I know, and so does upstream, they also said this feature isn't much used, and
it can be disabled by telling ./configure not to look for X, but then X using
ImageMagick applications like display also won't get buid, so I've requested
upstream to split this into 2 separate configure options.
Regards,
Hans
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