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Date:      Sun, 29 Jun 1997 03:58:45 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.COM>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/print/ghostscript5 ...
Message-ID:  <19970629035845.07965@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <97Jun14.114823pdt.177512@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>; from Bill Fenner on Sat, Jun 14, 1997 at 11:48:15AM -0800
References:  <97Jun14.114823pdt.177512@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>

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> >  BTW, should we nuke ghostscript4 ??? Does somebody know if any
> >  port needs gs4 ???
> 
> (But this does raise the question of why doesn't ghostview depend on
> ghostscript?)

Too complex to handle.  Ghostview (and gv) needs *any* version of
ghostscript to work.  So if I prefer ghostscript3 and we hardwire
ghostscript4 into these ports, then my ghostscript3 gets overwritten when
I install ghostview/gv.

-- 
-- David	(obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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