Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 05:44:47 -0400 From: Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net> To: KATO Tsuguru <tkato@prontomail.com> Cc: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, FreeBSD Bugs <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Ports List <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ports/40488: CUPS now relies on a special version of Ghostscript for printing on non-PS printers Message-ID: <20020713094447.GA28734@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <20020713172424.0fc11b52.tkato@prontomail.com> References: <20020713095105.64bb1ae6.dai_fugo@geocities.co.jp> <20020713005323.GA1174@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20020713172424.0fc11b52.tkato@prontomail.com>
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On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 05:24:24PM +0900, KATO Tsuguru wrote: >> I do not think that is necessary. I prefer to add the driver to the >> existing ghostscript-gnu. Everybody's got ghostscript-gnu installed, >> anyway. I think it's less hassle this way. > >Since there is no valid method to control *_DEPENDS, it >shouldn't be so easy to add third-party drivers which >require external libraries to current ghostscript-gnu >port without drastic restructure. Well, the patch was larger than this port, and I hadn't got to the install part yet. >Setting aside that issue, CUPS rasterizer is not necessary >for every FreeBSD user. Ghostscript users who has no printer >don't need CUPS rasterizer. CUPS users who has no non-PS >printer also don't need CUPS rasterizer. Very true: e.g., I have an HP PS printer. I was going to have a WITHOUT_CUPS knob to turn it off, but .. >Moreover, there is no actually usable CUPS driver package >for non-PS printers except Gimp-Print at present. I guess >it's pretty reasonable to separating CUPS rasterizer from >existing ghostscript-gnu package. It's starting to look like you're correct on this one. > >Here is an experimental implimentation of CUPS rasterizer >port. I would like you to utilize it if my opinion is >acceptable. > I'll patch up a couple minor glitches (e.g., lib depends on cups-base). I'm a little leery of patching the postscript code, but let me try this out. If it works, then thanks very much. You've saved me a lot of work. :) -- AlanE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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