On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:48:24PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:26:02 -0500
> [email protected] wrote:
>
> > It does not seem to be documented (e.g. pacman -Qi cups) but cups 1.5.3-3
> > requires ghostscript to be installed. This is a change for some of us who
> > had not otherwise needed ghostscript. FYI
> >
> > T.
> >
>
> cups-filters optionally depends on ghostscript (just as cups 1.5.3-2 did).
>
This is not an optional dependance that I am talking about. When I tried
to print from libreoffice via cups 1.5.3-3, cups failed because it called
gs but I had no ghostscript installed. After installed gs, I print easily.
So my experience is that gs is now a necessity to print through cups.
T.
