FS#24194 - CUPS does not pull in Ghostscript

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jonathan R. Schmid (sixtyfive) - Monday, 09 May 2011, 23:07 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 04 June 2011, 22:36 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Especially for newcomers (like me) it can lead to a lot of debugging that CUPS does not pull in Ghostscript, since the logs only show a helpful message as soon as LogLevel is changed to debug. Also, I know of no use case for CUPS that would not require Ghostscript. Alas it should be a dependency.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Saturday, 04 June 2011, 22:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  added some optional deps. ghostscript is not essentially needed. cups works without ghostscript with true ghostscript capable printers.
Comment by Jonathan R. Schmid (sixtyfive) - Monday, 09 May 2011, 23:24 GMT
Oh, and a2ps. This one isn't even mentioned in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS#Installing .

Edit: sorry, I can't find out how to make a new comment, maybe because the task is closed. Like I mentioned I'm new to Arch, so I don't even have a clue how to break the dependency tree. All I did was "pacman -S cups". If that breaks the dependency tree, then there surely must be *some* sort of bug here?
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 06:25 GMT
cups depends on libcups that depends on ghostscript. you manually broke the dep tree.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 22:56 GMT
libcups doesnt depend on ghostscript
EDIT: its the other way around ghostscript depends on libcups. Either way, installing cups doesnt pull ghostscript like the reporter says.

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