Re: -xpm or -noxpm

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> writes:

> Dear mentors,

> I am a bit confused by the libraries which exist in -xpm and -noxpm
> flavors. Are there cases where it is recommended not to use the -xpm
> one? Or should we build-depend on foo-xpm | foo-noxpm? Is it necessary
> to strictly depend on the -noxpm one if it seems that the program does
> not interact with xpm files?

> I came to a point in which I often have to remove some packages in order
> to build some of the source pacakges I have prepared.

I believe this is just GD, isn't it?  I'm not sure why GD does that.
Maybe because Xpm support requires linking in X libraries, which makes the
dependency chain heavier?

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>