Why no-X11 ghostscript?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Rodrigo Medina wrote:
> On 2005/12/28 18:08:11,  Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
> 
>>Rodrigo Medina wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>If I am not mistaken, gs-X11 does everything that gs-no-X11 does, then
>>>why distributing gs-no-X11 at all? A lot problems may arise due to the
>>>presence of two different programs with the same name.
>>>Of course all the programs of the package should go into /bin.
>>>Bye
>>>Happy holidays
>>>R.M.
> 
> 
>>Are you suggesting that gs-no-X11 requires X11?  If so, that's a bug.  If
>>not, should we assume your question is rhetorical?
> 
> 
> As the gs-no-X11 does something that gs-X11 does no do, that is it works
> without
> X11 DLLs, my question was not rhetorical, it was stupid. Nevertheless that
> does not
> solve the problem of the conflict between the two programs. I suggest doing
> the following:
> 
> 1- Having a unique ghostscript package,  with both gs-x.exe and gs.no-x.exe.
> 2- Install all executables, including both gs programs in /bin.
> 3- If X11 is installed then copy gs-x.exe to gs.exe, otherwise copy
> gs.no-x.exe to gs.exe

Yes, we've been over this ground before, have we not?   OK, you're coming
at it from a slightly different perspective.  But if we're making suggestions
on how to handle the case where both are installed, wouldn't leveraging the
alternatives package scripts be a better approach?

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