Some days ago I sent the following message to the list, but I've got no
answer. I repost this hoping someone could help me.
Cheers,
Andrea.
=== Begin Original Message ===
Hi,
I've installed Gerben Wierda teTeX distribution with gs 8.0, but now I
can't install system-ghostscript because
Hi,
I've installed Gerben Wierda teTeX distribution with gs 8.0, but now I
can't install system-ghostscript because it requires gs 7.05. So i
can't install all the Fink's packages that require gs. Installing
ghostscript 7.05 from fink will hide gs 8.0 (because the different
path) and I will end
On Saturday, April 13, 2002, at 07:05 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:
About six weeks ago I brought up the issue of making a
system-ghostscript
package (message reproduced below). Jeff objected (also reproduced
below)
but I would like to revisit the issue, because there is a forthcoming
OzTeX CD
David: I would vote no. The reason I never did this (even though I was
asked to several times) is exactly the one you mentioned - these
system-foo packages that install symlinks are very inelegant and easily
broken. I think we should only do it in those cases (like tetex and
XFree86) where the
I have written a system-ghostscript package, but I am undecided about
whether it should be included in fink or not.
As some of you know, there is a widely-used teTeX distribution (which
accompanies the program TeXShop), and we support this as an alternative
with fink's system-tetex package. The
