ghostscript-gpl vs. ghostscript-gnu

[Andreas Klemm]

Hi,

I'm personally fine by this.

But my personal time at the moment doesn't allow me to perform this action.
If somebody could take this over, would be great.

Best regards

	Andreas

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:14:51PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> 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






	Andreas ///

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