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Re: Inconvenient ghostscript and transfig dependences
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: rodmedina at cantv dot net
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:24:56 -0500
- Subject: Re: Inconvenient ghostscript and transfig dependences
- References: <317460-22005122202324167@cantv.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Rodrigo Medina wrote:
Hi,
There are two different gs programs distributed, one linked to the X11
library
which is put in /usr/X11R6/bin/gs.exe and another no-X11 that goes into
/bin/gs.exe. Here starts the problem: two different programs with the same
name. Actually if you have X11 there is no reason of installing the
gs-no-X11.
Depending on your PATH you get one or the other. In relation to this there
is the inconvenient dependence of transfig on gs-no-X11, which is
automatically
installed even if you have gs-X11. SETUP keeps trying to install gs-no-X11.
A pain on the neck.
Sorry but there is currently no way to represent "either/or" dependencies
via "setup.exe" (PTC). That said, there's no reason that you can't override
"setup.exe" and not install gs-no-X11. If you know that's what you want,
then you should feel free to do so. If your gripe is that "setup.exe" will
try to install gs-no-X11 each time you run it, you should feel free to
manually edit /etc/setup/install.db to include the package name and an
impossibly high version number to fool "setup.exe" into thinking you
already have a version installed that is more current than what it has
available to it.
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