From owner-cvs-ports Sun Jun 29 03:59:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA28185 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 03:59:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kongur.cs.ucdavis.edu (kongur.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA28180; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 03:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (carina45.wco.com [209.21.28.45]) by kongur.cs.ucdavis.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA03990; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 03:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA01337; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 10:58:45 GMT Message-ID: <19970629035845.07965@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 03:58:45 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Bill Fenner Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/ghostscript5 ... Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.COM References: <97Jun14.114823pdt.177512@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 In-Reply-To: <97Jun14.114823pdt.177512@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>; from Bill Fenner on Sat, Jun 14, 1997 at 11:48:15AM -0800 X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > BTW, should we nuke ghostscript4 ??? Does somebody know if any > > port needs gs4 ??? > > (But this does raise the question of why doesn't ghostview depend on > ghostscript?) Too complex to handle. Ghostview (and gv) needs *any* version of ghostscript to work. So if I prefer ghostscript3 and we hardwire ghostscript4 into these ports, then my ghostscript3 gets overwritten when I install ghostview/gv. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)