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Re: ghostscript-8.50 packaging question
>>>>> James R Phillips writes:
> This is a reasonable question. For this release I did not try to change the
> structure developed by the previous maintainer, and for which I am aware of no
> particular complaints. However, I am willing to try to improve the structure
> of the package for future releases. In particular I wish to move from "Method
> 1" to "Method 2" for the packaging.
> However I am not persuaded that there is an actual problem here. I don't think
> it is intended that both ghostscript and ghostscript-x11 be installed, but
> rather one or the other. In this case, the overlapping of files between the
> two packages is not a bug, but a feature. It should probably be documented
> more carefully in a README, however.
Well, right now ghostscript installs them below /usr/bin whereas
ghostscript-x11 below /usr/X11R6/bin. Putting them in ghostscript-base
would fix this. And both packages, ghostscript and ghostscript-x11
already require the base package.
Ciao
Volker
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