Why is GD required?

[geerlingguy]

According to

drupal-console-core/config/dist/phpcheck.yml

Line 14 in 19ef9a7

- gd

, the PHP GD extension is required... it seems this might only be used for building docs via GitBook or something like that—but it's not really required for any day-to-day Drupal Console usage. Is it possible to get that out of the requirements, so installs where console is only needed for CLI use (on a workstation or server that doesn't run Drupal itself) don't need to install GD?

[jmolivas]

@geerlingguy That file check your system to confirm if will be able to run Drupal we based on this https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/system-requirements/php

[geerlingguy]

But technically drupal (Console) can be run separately (in different environments) than Drupal itself runs... so wouldn't it just need to check on it's own requirements? Drupal itself does a check at install time for any missing PHP requirements.

[jmolivas]

We can probably have dependencies definition and check separated by launcher and site.