Bug 43147 – ImageMagick should depend on ghostscript

Bug 43147 - ImageMagick should depend on ghostscript

Summary:	ImageMagick should depend on ghostscript

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	ImageMagick (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported:	2001-06-01 08:07 EDT by Reuben Thomas
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-06-01 08:07:13 EDT
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Description Reuben Thomas 2001-06-01 08:07:09 EDT

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 08:29:38 EDT

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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