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Re: HEADS-UP: Modular X11 (ALL maintainers, please read)
- From: "James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com>
- To: "cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:00:59 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: Modular X11 (ALL maintainers, please read)
- Reply-to: antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com
--- "Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> I have been working on packaging the new, modular X11R7.0 for Cygwin for
> the last few weeks.
Mega-gold-stars for you!
>
> SECOND, the following packages install into /usr/X11R6. These should be
> repackaged into /usr ASAP after the X11R7.0 upgrade:
[...]
> ghostscript-x11 [2]
OK
[...]
> [2] ghostscript currently provides two sets of executables; a non-X
> version in /usr and an X version in /usr/X11R6. What is the reasoning
> for this, and is it really necessary?
It is necessary if you want to have a ghostscript version that does not depend
on X. Maybe this will be less important now, with the modular X, but I suspect
it is still important. ghostscript functions just fine as a command-line
filter, so many folks would prefer to have the non-X version. The X version
has the additional capability to write a bitmap rendering to an X client - I
think that is about the only difference.
I'll take a look at how Debian or Ubuntu handle it, and see if I can
shamelessly copy their ideas.
Jim Phillips