On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:42:44 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:50:25 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > >> netpbm has almost 300 in /usr/bin. > > > > Ouch. (I guess I shouldn't have asked.) > > > > Does netpbm do anything convert (ImageMagick) doesn't? I'd be happy to > > get rid of netpbm. > > > > netpbm-progs (the rpm containing all the 320 programs in /usr/bin) is > required for xmlto to function properly, which in turn is necessary > to build the git documentation. > > This is on Fedora 9, btw. On openSuse systems it is required by sax2-gui only. But just because it is used by these 2 packages doesn't mean that ImageMagick's convert can't be used instead. Someone would need to check what exactly xmlto and sax2-gui use in netpbm and whether convert could be used instead. I'd do if I only I had the time... :/ -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
