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Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions


On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:38:13PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:02:31PM +0100, John Morrison wrote:
>>
>>>>I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be 
>>>>duplicated (bdftops, font2c, gslj, etc) into both /usr/bin/|/usr/man and 
>>>>/usr/X11R6/bin|/usr/X11R6/man -- without any renaming.
>>>>
>>>Or have a ghostscript-docs-x.y.z which just contains documents...
>>>
>>
>>That won't be too convenient for people who want to read man pages.
>>
>>I'd suggest just using symbolic links in the /usr/X11R6/... directories 
>>to the /usr/... directories.
>
>
>But everybody is assuming that everything under /usr/X11R6/ (with the 
>exception of gs.exe) will be identical to the stuff under /usr.
>
>This *may* be true, NOW.  But it ain't necessarily so -- and even if it 
>is, it ain't guaranteed to remain that way.

I'm only suggesting symbolic links for identical information like man
pages.

cgf


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