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Subject: Re: afpl vs gnu ghostscript
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in message <20030423173043.C26097@asu.edu>,
wrote David Bear thusly...
>
> can anyone tell me the difference between afpl ghostscript and gnu
> ghostscript in the ports collection.  afplghostscript is at v8, while
> gnu ghostscript is a lowever number..
> 
> other than the license (gpl vs ?) are there functional differences?

Depending on how you compile any of these ports thru the annoying
interactive dialog, things may or may not work sometimes...

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/47768


  - parv

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