FC1 ghostscript update requires gdk-pixbuf and gtk+?

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Wed Aug 18 15:34:17 UTC 2004


On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:16:47 +0200, Andreas Mueller wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:20:03 +0200, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> > > (@Michael)
> > > There is a seperate package for gsx, called ghostscript-gtk, but
> > > the only file in this package is gsx itself. I see no problem that
> > > *this* package depends on gtk and gdk-pixbuf, but why ghostscript?
> >
> > Packaging bug?
> 
> It seems so. I have just checked this on another machine (FC2) without 
> ghostscript-gtk installed, and there I have /usr/bin/gsx, too.
> 
> > $ rpm -qlvp ghostscript-7.07-29.i386.rpm | grep gsx
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root            14468 Jun 25 18:44
> > /usr/bin/gsx $ rpm -qlvp ghostscript-gtk-7.07-29.i386.rpm | grep gsx
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root            14468 Jun 25 18:44
> > /usr/bin/gsx
> 
> But why does this give no file conflict during the installation of 
> ghostscript-gtk?

Because both packages contain exactly the same file with the same
checksum. That is permitted.





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