FC1 ghostscript update requires gdk-pixbuf and gtk+?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Aug 18 10:02:43 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 11:28, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:07:22AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:50:57 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:40:18AM +0200, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I wanted to update my FC1 text-only installation. The new ghostscript 
> > > > package (7.07-15.4) requires gdk-pixbuf and gtk+ to be installed. Why 
> > > > is that? Is it just an error in packaging or are there other reasons?
> > > 
> > > After all the fuss people made about needing libgs.so for FC1, it
> > > seems that virtually no-one tested the packages.
Wrong. It's just that those people who tested did not make a fuss about
ghostscript requiring gdk-pixbuf and gtk+.

If it requires gdk-pixbuf and gtk+, so be it. Where is the problem?

> > Was the update released on user feedback or after a time-out?
> > (It's gsx which requires gtk+/gdk.)
> 
> Both: I left it at least a week, and required at least some positive
> feedback.  I know that at least one person tested it to some extent.

And this person (me) did as he said above.

> I think this is something I'm going to have to let the Fedora Legacy
> project address if need be -- but I do wish that I hadn't started down
> this path in the first place.
> 
> Sorry for the mess.
Which mess?

ghostscript/FC2 requires gtk2 and gdk_pixbuf2, ghostscript/FC1 requires
their gtk1 counterparts, where is the problem?

Ralf






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