From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 21:23:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00153 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 21:23:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00141 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 21:23:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thompson@tgsoft.com) Received: from squirrel.tgsoft.com (cx20270-a.pwy1.sdca.home.com [24.0.169.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA22335 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 21:22:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9602 invoked by uid 128); 6 Feb 1998 05:23:32 -0000 Date: 6 Feb 1998 05:23:32 -0000 Message-ID: <19980206052332.9601.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> From: mark thompson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Subject: why so many ghostscript Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Why are there three versions of ghostscript in the ports? In particular, is this because nobody wants to delete 2.6.2 and re-verify those things (like hylafax) that depend on it - or - are people nervous that 4.03 is not necessarilly an improvement in all cases? I ask because i have had to hack a thing or two in 2.6.2 (notably to allow my windows machine to print via samba). At this point, i am thinking that maybe it is time for me to upgrade (but i wouldn't want to break hylafax). Sigh. -mark