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-rw-r--r-- | print/ghostscript-esp/DESCR | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | print/ghostscript/DESCR | 7 |
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. |