X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43A8A0D8.6060307@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:24:56 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050929 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rodmedina AT cantv DOT net CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Inconvenient ghostscript and transfig dependences References: <317460-22005122202324167 AT cantv DOT net> In-Reply-To: <317460-22005122202324167@cantv.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Rodrigo Medina wrote: > Hi, > There are two different gs programs distributed, one linked to the X11 > library > which is put in /usr/X11R6/bin/gs.exe and another no-X11 that goes into > /bin/gs.exe. Here starts the problem: two different programs with the same > name. Actually if you have X11 there is no reason of installing the > gs-no-X11. > Depending on your PATH you get one or the other. In relation to this there > is the inconvenient dependence of transfig on gs-no-X11, which is > automatically > installed even if you have gs-X11. SETUP keeps trying to install gs-no-X11. > A pain on the neck. Sorry but there is currently no way to represent "either/or" dependencies via "setup.exe" (PTC). That said, there's no reason that you can't override "setup.exe" and not install gs-no-X11. If you know that's what you want, then you should feel free to do so. If your gripe is that "setup.exe" will try to install gs-no-X11 each time you run it, you should feel free to manually edit /etc/setup/install.db to include the package name and an impossibly high version number to fool "setup.exe" into thinking you already have a version installed that is more current than what it has available to it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/