(In reply to Stefan Br���ns from comment #16) > ImageMagick has a significantly more heavy dependency chain than > GraphicsMagick, and IIRC this will also reintroduce a build cycle. Which build cycle, could you elaborate with your knowledge, please? > As it is used in quite some places as build dependency all these packages > then will be in blocked state until ImageMagick has been rebuilt. Perhaps yes, but I am not sure keeping GraphicsMagick for that reason only outweigh the issues described in comment 0. I do not see many packages requiring GraphicsMagick currently. That is why I am _considering_ GraphicsMagick removal now. At least gmic fake dependency was discovered now. But yes, I have to admit that I cannot be sure on the beginning we can get rid of GraphicsMagick completely, no matter how sensible it sounds.