Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 16:07:07 +0900 From: KATO Tsuguru <tkato@prontomail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: ghostscript commits (fix of back out request) Message-ID: <20030608160707.1553df13.tkato@prontomail.com> In-Reply-To: <20030608034254.GA3680@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030607211633.GA78779@freefall.freebsd.org> <bbtqo8$1f0p$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20030608092359.511b962a.tkato@prontomail.com> <bbu8ua$2b9p$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20030608034254.GA3680@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 20:42:54 -0700 Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > Why is cups required? I'd prefer not to have ghostscript suck in this > package unless I need it. The primary reason why two ports should be merged is to avoid several issues caused by version skew of gs binary. I hear that gs 7.05 or older (cups-pstoraster is based on this version) cannot handle PDF generated by gs 7.06 or newer properly. And then, current cups-pstoraster cannot process CJK PS/PDF at all since there was no valid way to support CJK fonts. In the meantime, the only reason why two ports are separated is old scheme of configure script was too complicated to control LIB_DEPENDS. I suppose it should be reasonable choice for average users to enable CUPS driver support by default since there are plenty of other popular ports (GNOME, KDE, Samba, etc.) requires CUPS library by default. Minimalist users can build this port with, similar as existing net/samba port, adding WITHOUT_CUPS arguments.
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