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Oooh exciting. I cloned it, noted the one dependency, opencv, cool beans! Went to install the dependency, and it has 53 dependencies…
I’d previously considered opencv as rawproc’s low level image library, but I now remember why I moved on…
opencv is so much easier to compile nowadays but I am sure packaging is not enjoyable.
It’s probably not rational, but I’m not a fan of installing something so burgeoning for just a few functions. I feel the same way about Boost, but both are very useful in their own regards.
I believe opencv has boost dependencies…?
That’s right, one of the 53 packages in the ‘to install’ list.
I do now have Boost-dev for something I recently cloned to compile, can’t remember what, oh well. Oh, the one that really chapped me was glib2, so much of that is now in the C++ standard libraries, and I recall struggling with it mightily in msys2 to get lensfun to compile.
Just the predilections of an old fool… 
Struggle is part of artistic expression. In any case, it is good to see stacking apps moving forward.