Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:35:05 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: se@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need "a" ghostscript Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961107213152.10779B-100000@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <96Nov3.152752pst.177557@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Bill Fenner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm creating a port of wb, which is similar to the Netscape port in that
> it will just ftp the precompiled binary. wb needs ghostscript installed,
> but we have 3 different ghostscript ports: "ghostscript", "ghostscript3"
> and "ghostscript4". wb doesn't care which one, just needs gs.
>
> Right now, my Makefile says
>
> # XXX ghostscript, ghostscript3 or ghostscript4 will all do.
> RUN_DEPENDS= gs:${PORTSDIR}/print/ghostscript4
> I *think* this will allow any "gs" executable, but if there is none it
> will install ghostscript4. I don't know about the package deal, though,
> I suspect that if you are using packages and have a different ghostscript
> installed you will run into trouble. Any ideas how to handle this?
I think we could remove ghostscript 2.6.2 and 3.x port. gs4 seems
pretty stable. No need to keep several versions like with tcl/tk.
Does somebody have something against removal of gs2 and gs3 port ?!
Andreas ///
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