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authorgdt <gdt>2007-10-22 16:31:16 +0000
committergdt <gdt>2007-10-22 16:31:16 +0000
commiteb86d64d8e7475b88839504a236e25334d11eae4 (patch)
treee1e9481fd2fc99ce52bc0db020354a11824d446b /print
parent0125c5c0cb99756f056182c22e2f53e2277a6221 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-eb86d64d8e7475b88839504a236e25334d11eae4.tar.gz
Point out that ghostscript-esp is old and that ghostscript has cups
support if built with the cups option.
Diffstat (limited to 'print')
-rw-r--r--print/ghostscript-esp/DESCR3
-rw-r--r--print/ghostscript/DESCR7
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/print/ghostscript-esp/DESCR b/print/ghostscript-esp/DESCR
index c4cdf9b4600..554af377002 100644
--- a/print/ghostscript-esp/DESCR
+++ b/print/ghostscript-esp/DESCR
@@ -6,3 +6,6 @@ This package contains ESP Ghostscript, which is a separately maintained
distribution of GNU Ghostscript and distributed under the terms of the GNU
Public License. ESP Ghostscript incorporates the CUPS raster printer
driver and a large number of contributed Ghostscript printer drivers.
+
+Note that print/ghostscript now has cups support, and that this version is older.
+Thus ghostscript-esp is deprecated and will be removed at some point.
diff --git a/print/ghostscript/DESCR b/print/ghostscript/DESCR
index 19a98ab5bc5..272922305f4 100644
--- a/print/ghostscript/DESCR
+++ b/print/ghostscript/DESCR
@@ -2,5 +2,8 @@ Ghostscript is the well-known PostScript interpreter which is available for
all common and most esoteric platforms and supports many different printers
and some displays.
-This is the latest version of Ghostscript, formerly being distributed under
-Aladdin Free Public License and released under GPL.
+This is the latest version of Ghostscript, formerly being distributed
+under Aladdin Free Public License and released under GPL. The main
+ghostscript version now includes support for cups, enabled by the
+default"cups" option (which is off by default), and thus it is no
+longer necessary to use ghostscript-esp.