I second the request having no-X11 version of ImageMagick. This is
pretty important also for small Web servers performance that want to
use ImageMagick features. Relaying on GTK, X11 makes all Ruby
(rmagick) or "convert" calls load all X11, GTK libraries into the
memory which is precious for small web servers.
Not that RMagick is most popular Ruby image manipulation extension
used in Rails. So every Rails Debian based server pulls all X11+GTK2
just to have this extension up and running, this is just a waste of
resources.
FreeBSD, MacPorts, etc. have X11-less version of ImageMagick. --
without-x is standard configure parameter of ImageMagick since many
years.
I am pretty amazed that Debian (which is still IMHO best Linux server
distro) have some X-required packages like that one instead of
dropping X-dependency by default.
Regards,
Adam
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