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Bug#782901: ghostscript: missing dependency on TeX



Hi Rafal,

Quoting Rafal Pietrak (2015-04-19 17:58:27)
> Having DVI from "other sources" then TeX. I've tried to PDF it.
> 
> This fails because DVIPDF complained, that DVIPS is missing.... which 
> is a part of TeX package, while TeX wain't installed on my system when 
> I've experienced that. Ghostscript, which owns DVIPDF does not depend 
> on TeX ... and it should not.

I am not familiar with feeding dvi source to ghostscript: Please provide 
full commandline which failed.


> But may be depending the entire ghostscript package on TeX is not such 
> a good idea. I would think, that DVIPDF linking ghostscript to TeX, 
> should rather be moved to it's own package, depending on both.

Another option would be to only suggest tex.


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