Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:15:04PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> I guess Graphviz was propagated so that ‘doxygen’ can produce class >> diagrams out-of-the-box (it probably looks for ‘dot’ in $PATH.) So I >> would probably keep it propagated. > > I do not remember anymore, although it was me to do it (well, in April 2014). > At some point in time doxygen depended on graphviz, then the dependency > was dropped according to the changelog on the web site. But this was before > I added it, so you may be right. Does it have any impact on packages > that depend on doxygen?
Dunno. > I wonder if this is not a case where we should leave it to the user to > install or not the additional program, since doxygen should still be > functional without this feature? Could be. OTOH, there’s a risk of Doxygen being effectively “broken by default” if, as I presume, many programs expect it to be able to generate PNGs for class diagrams. I’m chatting, but again, I haven’t actually tried. :-) Ludo’.
