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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/imagemagick.scm | 17 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/imagemagick.scm b/gnu/packages/imagemagick.scm index cc5f1de4bf..528fb9eb25 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/imagemagick.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/imagemagick.scm @@ -44,7 +44,19 @@ #:use-module (gnu packages xml) #:use-module (gnu packages xorg)) -(define-public imagemagick +;; This is a variant of the 'imagemagick' package that is not updated often. +;; It is intended to be used as a native-input at build-time only, e.g. by +;; 'gtk-doc' (via 'dblatex') for generating package documentation. This +;; allows the main 'imagemagick' package to be freely updated on the 'master' +;; branch without triggering an excessive number of rebuilds. +;; +;; Normally the grafts mechanism would be used, but there are often +;; difficulties grafting imagemagick, e.g. because upstream changes the ABI +;; between micro version updates. Also, the overwhelming majority of +;; dependencies on imagemagick are via 'gtk-doc' in 'native-inputs', where +;; grafting is ineffective. See: +;; <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-03/msg00381.html>. +(define-public imagemagick/stable (package (name "imagemagick") ;; The 7 release series has an incompatible API, while the 6 series is still @@ -127,6 +139,9 @@ transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.") (license (license:fsf-free "http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php")))) +(define-public imagemagick + imagemagick/stable) + (define-public perl-image-magick (package (name "perl-image-magick") |