Yeah, the whole point of preferring distro packages is for binaries and distro-specific configs.  Any decent image manipulation components will rely on binary code for performance.  Unfortunately, too many CPAN modules fail to build XS correctly on a given platform (including debian, historically), hence the distro package approach.  

What kind of complication are you seeing?

--joe

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Colin Campbell
<colin.campbell@ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
< snip >
> wondered if there are any advantages in using Graphics Magick rather
> than Image Magick (as imagemagick has the advantage that the perl module
> can be installed from CPAN )

Only that with Graphics Magick you get both binaries and perl module
in one shot. With Image Magick you'll have to cpan the perl module and
then get the binaries via some other mechanism depending on your *nix
flavor.

Otherwise there is probably no advantage to what we are doing with it.

Kind Regards,
Chris