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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

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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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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