[Magick-bugs] Why does libMagickCore depend on X11 ?

[Hans de Goede]

duc.sequere.aut.de.via.decede at imagemagick.org wrote:
>> shouldn't only these programs be linked against
>> X11 libs then?
> 
> ImageMagick permits rendering text onto an image with X11 fonts.  If you
> build without X11 support, X11 fonts will not be supported (however we suspect
> very few people us X11 fonts).
> 

Any chance that this could be made a seperate configure option, you see in 
Fedora we would like to have the display and other X11 using applications, and 
at the same time not have the ImageMagick libraries and console utilities 
depend upon X11 libraries.

Regards,

Hans