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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Jason Flatt wrote:
> 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.

A `cleanse --fix` would detect and fix that. We can't really stop
people completely from pulling the trigger. ;)

- -sandalle

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