Subject: Re: ImageMagick's patch-aa
To: Soren Jacobsen <snj@pobox.com>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/06/2004 20:16:05
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Soren Jacobsen wrote:

> > I am still testing. Does anyone know if ImageMagick really needs X?
>
> I regularly use the display command, which needs X.

I forgot about it. Mine is very small!

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 4684 Oct  5 16:13 /usr/bin/display

reed@puget:~/book$ display
display: X Window library is not available `'.

> I'm not really opposed to making the X stuff optional as long as it
> remains on by default.

Okay.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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