On Thursday, 23 August 2018 09:06:12 BST Mick wrote:
> I noticed this enotice in imagemagick:
> 
>  * For security reasons, a policy.xml file was installed in
> /etc/ImageMagick-7 * which will prevent the usage of the following coders
> by default: *
>  *   - PS
>  *   - EPS
>  *   - PDF
>  *   - XPS
> 
> Excuse my ignorance, but I am not sure why the above PS related files are
> disabled.  What is the security threat exactly?  JavaScript contents which
> may be executed by ImageMagick?

That prompted me to emerge -K imagemagick, and I saw the same. But just 
before the line " * For security reasons..." was this:

/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-7.0.8.10-r1/temp/environment: line 
2260: version_is_at_least: command not found

So that's two mysteries.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.




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