On Oct 6, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/6/10 12:31 PM, Stefan Bruda wrote: >> Hi, >> >> At 09:49 -0400 on 2010-10-6 Alexander Hansen wrote: >>> >>> ghostscript-esp is kind of old. There were some patches applied >>> just to make it build on x86_64, but I'm not sure whether it ran >>> for anybody. >> >> Oh, OK, so foomatic-filters are also not useable (since they depend on >> ghostscript-esp). In any event, I reverted back to ghostscript and >> installed foomatic-fitlers from source instead of through fink... The >> source did not complain about needing the ESP variant or anything and >> everything seems to work well. >> >> Thank you for getting back to me. >> >> Stefan >> > > I'll cc the foomatic-filters maintainer, to see about an update.
foomatic-filters drivers need to be installed into /usr/libexec and /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources for cups to recognize them and fink packages aren't allowed to do that. ghostscript-esp has a utility called 'finkcups' that installs these for the user and foomatic-filters requires it to do anything useful. Regular ghostscript doesn't have this utility and so can't be used with foomatic-filters. Recent OS X comes with so many printer drivers, including Gutenprint, that it doesn't seem useful to continue this package. If you really what foomatic-filters, you should just install it from source yourself, which you did. :) Current ghostscript has the features of ghostscript-esp which foomatic needs to work. It's just not practical as a fink package. Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
