On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Jean Delvare wrote: > 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... :/ Great, let's start a witch (nazi? ;-) hunt on any package installing more than $n binaries in /usr/bin, and any packages depending on it... Get used to the `choice' you and I have between netpbm and ImageMagick (and whatever other image manipulation tool), just like the choice between `git<space><subcmd>' and `git-<subcmd>'. Now, let's get back to topic... With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Sony Techsoft Centre Europe The Corporate Village · Da Vincilaan 7-D1 · B-1935 Zaventem · Belgium Phone: +32 (0)2 700 8453 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 8622 E-mail: Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx Internet: http://www.sony-europe.com/ A division of Sony Europe (Belgium) N.V. VAT BE 0413.825.160 · RPR Brussels Fortis · BIC GEBABEBB · IBAN BE41293037680010
