I feel the same about imagemagick. Oh the things you can do with just curl, bash, imagemagick... And gnuplot if you're rich.
Re:FFmpeg 4.3
by strombofulous on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @08:23PM
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Why do you need to be rich for gnuplot? Aren't gnu things generally GPL?
Sorry it was a bit tongue in cheek.
On many systems I work with and have to debug, gnuplot won't be already installed (and won't be installable on a system not connected to the Internet) so 'rich' would be 'flush in packages with a full system available'.
Sometimes, even imagemagick isn't there, but rsvg-convert is, you can still do amazing things with just bash+curl+svg...
Re:FFmpeg 4.3
by boomboomsubban on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:32AM
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Apparently gnuplot is unrelated to GNU, and the original developers were making a pun on "newplot." It's license is a bit complicated, which is why most systems don't have it.
Or the IT security guys that expertly hand-picked all your available packages for minimum attack surface removed it (but let imagemagick... after some time you stop asking some questions :-)
Re:FFmpeg 4.3
by bobbylarrybobby on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @08:43PM
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My guess is they’re referring the need for lots of compute power to get it to run in a reasonable time, which is expensive
This demonstrates, in a rather extreme example, the colossal composability of the interface, even if it lacks nice formatting here.