So many packages installed for gimp - amazed

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 5, 2007, at 02:06, Boey Maun Suang wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
>> I understand that gimp has dependencies but I am amazed at how  
>> many packages are being installed.  It is not just how slow my  
>> iBook G4 is, but all of the following have been installed in  
>> response to my install of gimp (run from a different Terminal  
>> window while the port install continues):
>
> <snip />
>
>> If this still appears normal, I will stop bugging the list.  I am  
>> not really an impatient person. ;-)
>
> Looks pretty normal to me; the Gimp is a complex program, and it  
> depends on parts of Gnome which is also complex, so the full list  
> of dependencies is going to be quite long, and compiling all of  
> them will take time.

Yup. The gimp port brings in a *lot* of dependencies. Here's the  
graph of everything that's going to be installed:

http://ryandesign.com/tmp/gimp.png