Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:06:44 GMT From: Steve Wills <steve@mouf.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/117878: ghostscript lacks dvips dependency Message-ID: <200711062006.lA6K6iTu089632@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200711062010.lA6KA2vV059903@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 117878 >Category: ports >Synopsis: ghostscript lacks dvips dependency >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Nov 06 20:10:02 UTC 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Steve Wills >Release: 6.2 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: ghostscript installs dvipdf which is simply a shell script which eventually calls dvips. But, dvips is not a part of the ghostscript package. dvipdf therefore fails with "dvips: not found". >How-To-Repeat: install ghostscript-gpl port. run dvipdf with a dvi file. >Fix: Add dependency on dvips. dvips is either print/dvips or print/dvipsk-tetex. print/dvipsk-tetex may be preferable since it doesn't conflict with tetex things, where print/dvips does. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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