From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Cc: 27635@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#27635] [PATCH] gnu: emacs: Build with imagemagick support.
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:42:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lujxcew.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737a3dsh6.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Vong's message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2017 21:16:05 +0800")
Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> skribis:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:
>>
>>> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>>>
>>>> There a few big packages showing up in the profile; we should try to
>>>> make them smaller, perhaps by introducing separate outputs:
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> I have to go through the dependency tree carefully to figure out which
>>> package to split. Do you have any suggestions off the bat?
>>
>> ImageMagick and Graphviz are pretty big. For the latter, ISTR there are
>> a couple of executables that are surprisingly big; perhaps the solution
>> would be to figure out why it is the case and strip them somehow, if
>> possible.
>>
>> Ghostscript and icu4c are also rather big.
>>
> How about making a tiny version of imagemagick excluding ghostscript?
> The emacs manual[0] says ghostscript is a hard requirement for
> postscript files. If users don't need to render postscript files, then
> we don't need it, right?
As someone who uses DocView, I’d like to keep it. :-)
In general I think we should work more on making our packages smaller,
but not at the cost of useful features.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-11 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-10 4:04 [bug#27635] [PATCH] gnu: emacs: Build with imagemagick support Alex Vong
2017-07-10 9:50 ` bug#27635: " Arun Isaac
2017-07-10 10:36 ` [bug#27635] " Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-11 5:28 ` Arun Isaac
[not found] ` <4065ab44.AEMAM2ovFI4AAAAAAAAAAAOzWv8AAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZZGIV@mailjet.com>
2017-07-11 8:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-11 13:16 ` Alex Vong
2017-07-11 14:42 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-07-11 21:31 ` Arun Isaac
2017-07-11 14:12 ` Arun Isaac
[not found] ` <8fa36bff.AEEANLsStFwAAAAAAAAAAAOzWv8AAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZZNy9@mailjet.com>
2017-07-11 14:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
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