Packaging ghostscript's X11 support separately
Peter Lemenkov
lemenkov at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 17:57:50 UTC 2014
2014-12-18 20:20 GMT+03:00 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>:
> I could package it in its own sub-package, ghostscript-x11, but that
> might be a bit surprising to people who expect 'ghostscript' to have an
> x11alpha driver.
>
> Alternatively I could move everything else from ghostscript to a new
> sub-package ghostscript-base, and have 'ghostscript' (i.e. just the
> X11.so plugin) require ghostscript-base (i.e. everything else).
The latter approach (ghostscript depending on *-core and *-x11/gui) is
better. it won't break any installations while providing enough
flexibility for the new ones.
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With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.
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