David R. Morrison wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2006, at 12:26 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> (*)One duty of the new maintainer might be to gently nudge the
>> maintainer of system-ghostscript to update it to 8.54, too ;-)
>
> I've been tempted in the past to abolish system-tetex and system-
> ghostscript from fink, and I'm tempted again at this juncture.
Very understandable. I don't think there will be much objection
concerning ghostscript, because it is relatively small, and the current
version of system-ghostscript didn't really work anyway recently, so
there won't be many disappointed users. For system-tetex this might be
different, due to the big size.
> Tracking (by hand) the behavior of external-to-fink packages is a
> painful and thankless task, which is one of the reasons we introduced
> virtual packages for the things that Apple provides.
Especially if, like for GWtex, there exist several different versions
with differing file layout.
> One possibility, I guess, is to try to turn system-tetex and system-
> ghostscript into virtual packages. Any opinions about that, for or
> against?
For ghostscript, the overall situation could be simplified at least by
scrapping all those ghostscript{6,7} packages. I am not aware of
anything contemporary that still needs them.
--
Martin
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