ghostscript-gpl vs. ghostscript-gnu

Mikhail Teterin mi+mill at aldan.algebra.com
Fri Apr 11 18:14:54 UTC 2008


Whatever the reasons for having two different GS-ports, the apsfilter insists 
on the version 7.x (ghostscript-gnu), which, indeed, seems to have a wider 
selection of drivers:

 # ./SETUP 
 Found ghostscript version 8.61 ...
 You have to upgrade at least to gs version 6.50!
 But you should upgrade to gs 7.00 for full driver support
 prior installing printers with SETUP.
 Do you you want to continue? [Y/n] 

Yet, some other port (teTeX?) installed ghostscript-gpl and I'm now forced to 
replace one with the other to regain the use of printer (Brother-1270, using 
the hl1250 driver)...

Is it time for "USE_GHOSTSCRIPT" knob?

 -mi


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