On Apr 26, 2005, at 6:30 PM, Viv Kendon wrote:
If I do fink list ghostscript on one of my machines, part of the output says:
p ghostscript 8.15-1 Interpreter for PostScript and PDF
i ghostscript-... 8.11-2 Standard fonts for Ghostscript
ghostscript-nox 7.04-3 Interpreter for PostScript and PDF
i ghostscript6 6.01-4 Interpreter for PostScript and PDF, v6.01
man fink tells me the 'p' means:
p a virtual package provided by a package that is installed
but surely that's not right in this case -- I have ghostscript6 installed (because I'm still hitting problems with gs8 every time I try it, though less than I used to) but I also have ghostscript 8 built so the deb is there,
though it is out of date, it is 8.14-1
/sw/fink/debs/ghostscript_8.14-1_darwin-powerpc.deb -> /sw/fink/ dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/ ghostscript_8.14-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
I don't have any third party ghostscripts on my system (except the ones hidden in acrobat etc..)
-- Viv
"fink list" always shows the version number of the latest version available. The latest version of ghostscript is 8.15-1, so that's what's shown. The "p" indicates that some other package, in this case ghostscript6, is providing a virtual package of the same name, so that packages only need to depend on just ghostscript rather than either ghostscript or ghostscript6. Virtual packages have no version numbers, so the version is always of the latest real package of that name.
Daniel
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