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[Jason Flatt <jflatt AT sourcemage.org>]

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.

-- 
Jason Flatt
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jflatt AT sourcemage.org

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