[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#470671: `apt-get install imagemagick` wants to pull 73MB

[Adam Strzelecki]

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