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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Cups and Ghostscript . . .
  • Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:54:25 +0200

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 06:47:01AM -0700, Jason Flatt wrote:
> On Sunday 25 September 2005 01:41 am, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 10:42:23PM -0700, Jason Flatt wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's what I've decided to do:
> > > * make the cups spell not depend on any ghostscript spell.
> > > * make the espgs spell not depend on cups at all and give $OPTS the
> > > --without-cups option w/o asking for feed back.
> > > * create a new spell based on cups (called cups-espgs) that will
> > > compile and install cups and then compile and install espgs with the
> > > --with-cups option specified (no asking).
> >
> > Why the espgs default and the seperate cups-espgs spell? Just removing
> > the ghostscript dependency from cups and making espgs optionally depend
> > on cups looks to me like it would solve all issues already, maybe with
> > a note in the cups spell that you need espgs to print to postscript
> > (pcl?) printers.
> >
>
> I was also trying to avoid what I felt would be the inevitable outcome of
> just
> removing the depends espgs line -- a series of bugs claiming cups needs
> espgs
> in order to work correctly (or pleas for help wondering why it didn't
> work).
> Even with the text in the cups and espgs spells right now, there are still
> people who claim it doesn't work and have to be told how to do it correctly.

I just don't like the idea that rdispelling cups would lead to a system
without ghostscript installed, which would be the case in a combined
spell. ghostscript has many more uses than just being used by cups to
print ...

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