Bug#246983: gs-*: alternatives priority confusion
Kenshi Muto wrote:
> At Tue, 11 May 2004 02:38:54 +0200,
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > the current setup is pretty braindead if CUPS is installed:
> > - by default, gs-gpl and gs-afpl are never used when gs is called
> > - if you manually change the default gs, you break CUPS
> >
> > What about the following:
> > - CUPS calls gs-esp instead of gs
> > - gs-esp priority becomes lower than 20
> > - gs-esp with low priority conflicts with older CUPS packages
>
> Because CUPS itself uses gs-esp statically (so CUPS always needs
> 'Depends: gs-esp'), your reassign should be closed.
>
> But, I won't agree to make gs-esp lower. Some other filter packages
> are still using 'gs'.
Since alternatives are intended to be changed by an administrator, it is
a bug if some filters call "gs" when they need "gs-esp". So if these
filters are fixed, as they should be anyway, then we can change the
priorities and everyone will be happy. :-)
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Installing CUPS effectively makes gs-gpl and gs-afpl useless.
This is really a serious problem. I was quite surprised to discover
that I was using gs-esp when calling gv (cf bug 323867), since I had
never intentionally installed it.
Andrew
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