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From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr DOT Volker DOT Zell AT oracle DOT com>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:45:16 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20060219033435.99716.qmail@web51504.mail.yahoo.com> (James R. Phillips's message of "Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:34:35 -0800 (PST)")
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>>>>> James R Phillips writes:

    > This is a reasonable question.  For this release I did not try to change the
    > structure developed by the previous maintainer, and for which I am aware of no
    > particular complaints.  However, I am willing to try to improve the structure
    > of the package for future releases.  In particular I wish to move from "Method
    > 1" to "Method 2" for the packaging.

    > However I am not persuaded that there is an actual problem here.  I don't think
    > it is intended that both ghostscript and ghostscript-x11 be installed, but
    > rather one or the other.  In this case, the overlapping of files between the
    > two packages is not a bug, but a feature.  It should probably be documented
    > more carefully in a README, however.

Well, right now ghostscript installs them below /usr/bin whereas
ghostscript-x11 below /usr/X11R6/bin. Putting them in ghostscript-base
would fix this. And both packages, ghostscript and ghostscript-x11
already require the base package.

Ciao
  Volker


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