Bug 22904 – ghostscript-7.05.6-r2 requires gimp, gnome, and X when using cups

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Reillyeon 2003-06-15 22:44:34 UTC]

Even when I am using -gnome and -X the ghostscript ebuild tries to compile gimp
as  part of its cups support. This is a problem for my headless box because X is
not wanted. The ghostscript ebuild should use gimp-print-cups instead of
gimp-print when compiling without gnome.

[Comment 1 Gabe Yoder 2003-06-19 19:01:07 UTC]

Neither gimp-print nor gimp-print-cups should be included as a result of the cups flag (although gimp-print-cups would be an improvement since it pulls in less extraneous stuff).  There should be a separate flag to control whether the gimp stuff is used.  Tacking unrelated options to use flags kind of eliminates the whole point of having the use flags.

[Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2003-06-28 14:10:39 UTC]

fixed in next gs version.

[Comment 3 Daniel Mettler 2003-07-13 07:15:10 UTC]

nb: the bug should be upgraded to "critical" (may spoil servers).

the following fixes it for me

--- ghostscript-7.05.6-r2.ebuild        2003-07-04 16:36:57.000000000 +0000
+++ ghostscript-7.05.6-r3.ebuild        2003-07-13 14:08:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
        cjk? ( media-fonts/arphicfonts
                media-fonts/kochi-substitute
                media-fonts/baekmuk-fonts )
-       cups? ( || ( gimp-print gimp-print-cups ) )"
+       cups? ( gimp-print-cups )"

 S=${WORKDIR}/espgs-${PV}

[Comment 4 Daniel Mettler 2003-07-13 08:16:11 UTC]

btw. it's just a way to get rid of the nasty x (etc.) dependencies. i don't claim it to be the right[tm] solution..

[Comment 5 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2003-07-16 07:05:06 UTC]

ghostscript-7.05.6-r3 now in portage ...