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,

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