Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

#49872 new enhancement

ghostscript: missing dependency on texlive-basic for dvips

Reported by: pierre@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc: drkp (Dan Ports), cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)
Port: ghostscript

Description

Hello, When installing the ghostscript package, dvipdf is installed, but not dvips This is an inconsistency, because dvipdf relies on dvips and cannot work without it.

Change History (5)

comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Keywords: dvips dvipdf ghostscript removed
Version: 2.3.4

comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Summary: Missing dvips from ghostscript package → ghostscript: missing dependency on texlive-basic for dvips

dvips is provided by the texlive-basic port. I guess if ghostscript's dvipdf requires it, ghostscript should declare a dependency on texlive-basic.

comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by pierre@…

Making a dependency to texlive is a solution, but it is a pity because dvips is ~300KB. Moreover, it is strange that ghostscript is associated to dvipdf since it does not work out of the box. dvips should also be part of ghostscript as long as dvipdf is included. Should I contact a ghostscript developer (completely outside macports) to ask a little more ?

comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by drkp (Dan Ports)

Cc: drkp added

I don't think there's a good answer to this one, since texlive-basic depends on ghostscript itself (via texlive-bin).

comment:5 Changed 2 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

Cc: cooljeanius added
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