Bug 43147 - ImageMagick should depend on ghostscript
Summary: ImageMagick should depend on ghostscript
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ImageMagick
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-06-01 12:07 UTC by Reuben Thomas
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-06-01 12:07:13 UTC
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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
3. 

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Additional Information:
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.
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