ghostscript-8.50 packaging question

Sun Feb 19 11:52:00 GMT 2006

>>>>> 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
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/