libtiff comes with this godawful tiff viewer called tiffgt, which is written (for reasons no-one can fathom) using OpenGL. It doesn't seem to offer any real redeeming features, and breaks easily (it segfaulted on a sample tiff I created in gimp). Can we chop this bit out of the build so this dependancy goes away ? I noticed it when I installed samba on a fileserver, and saw it trying to pull in GL libraries on a headless box via samba-common->cups-libs->libtiff->mesa-libGL
how about splitting off a libtiff-clients package with all the binaries ?
i ended up removing it