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  • From: Jason Flatt <jflatt AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Cups and Ghostscript . . .
  • Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:23:48 -0700

On Sunday 25 September 2005 08:54 am, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 06:47:01AM -0700, Jason Flatt wrote:
> >
> > 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 ...

They could always cast another Ghostscript related spell. People can shoot
themselves in the foot in far worse ways than dispelling espgs.

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Jason Flatt
Source Mage GNU/Linux: Linux so advanced, it may as well be magic.
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