Why do we have both ghostscript-gpl and ghostscript-gnu?

Jose M Rodriguez josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es
Thu Dec 30 04:36:30 PST 2004


KATO Tsuguru wrote:

>On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:20:41 +0100
>Jose M Rodriguez <josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es> wrote:
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>>At last here, the only problem I found is with cups-pstoraster, with 
>>really need the -gnu thing installed.
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>There are some other issues. Ability of handling east-asian
>charactors is degraded from 7.x to 8.x.
>
>In other words, east-asian FreeBSD user won't be able to
>use CUPS if cups-pstoraster port will be simply changed to
>8.x codebase.
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My plans are make the cups device with any gs you chose, and limit the 
cups-pstoraster port only to de cups config/scripts.

--
  josemi



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