Bug 43147

Summary: ImageMagick should depend on ghostscript
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Reuben Thomas <rrt>
Component: ImageMagickAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Description Reuben Thomas 2001-06-01 12:07:09 UTC
Description of Problem:

The convert program uses /usr/bin/gs to convert PostScript files, yet the 
ImageMagick RPM has no dependency on ghostscript (at least, it's not mentioned 
in rpm -q --requires ImageMagick).

How Reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install ImageMagick but not ghostscript
2. Try to convert a PostScript file
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Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-06-01 12:29:38 UTC
Since RPM doesn't have a "RequiresForFullFunctionalityButWorksWithout:" tag, 
and ImageMagick can be quite useful without PostScript support (e.g. for 
converting gifs to pngs), I prefer having it the way it is.