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[Jason Flatt <jflatt AT sourcemage.org>]

On Sunday 25 September 2005 01:47 pm, Andrew wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Iirc the issue was (is?) that in-order for cups to work correctly with
> postscript, it had to be built with espgs on the system, but in-order for
> espgs to work correctly with cups, it had to get built with cups on the
> system. So to get a working setup you had to build espgs, then cups, then
> espgs again. (This is listed in the cups long description and I've never
> been able to make cups work with postscript unless I follow it). The
> idea behind a merged spell is to do the above gymnastics internally.
>
> Maybe thats no-longer the case though.
>
> -Andrew

I don't remember if that was the case before or not, but it's not the case 
now.  Cups does not need espgs installed to compile, nor does it need it to 
print to non-postscript printers.  It still needs it to print to postscript 
printers, though.

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Jason Flatt
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