From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 6 04:49:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA01812 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 04:49:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from second.dialup.access.net (lsmarso.dialup.access.net [166.84.254.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA01804 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 04:49:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lsmarso@panix.com) Received: (from lsmarso@localhost) by second.dialup.access.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA01075; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 07:49:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lsmarso) Message-ID: <19980206074705.60996@panix.com> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 07:47:05 -0500 From: "Larry S. Marso" To: mark thompson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why so many ghostscript Mail-Followup-To: mark thompson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <19980206052332.9601.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19980206052332.9601.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>; from mark thompson on Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 05:23:32AM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Is that confirmed? That ghostscript 5.0, for example, won't work with hylafax? I'm a happy user of 5.0 together with my LaTeX installation. If it's necessary to install 2.6.2, can it be installed alongside 5.0? Or does it over-write it? -- Larry S. Marso lsmarso@panix.com On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 05:23:32AM -0000, mark thompson wrote: > 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