'pngread' and 'jpgread' usage?

[Benjamin Lindner]

Søren Hauberg wrote:
> tir, 09 06 2009 kl. 09:51 +0200, skrev Benjamin Lindner:
>> True, so you'll still need libpng and libjpeg to compile graphicsmagick 
>> with png and jpeg support.
>> So you can't drop these dependencies, just because pngread and jpegread 
>> are removed.
> 
> But they can be dropped from the 'image' package :-) Since the 'imread'
> and 'imwrite' functions have been moved to Octave, this would simplify
> the 'image' package which is my concern.
> 

True, I didn't think of that.

Go ahead and remove them,
If someone really relies on them, a simple extraction from the image 
package and a mkoctfile invocation does the trick.

benjamin