Why was gs-aladdin removed as "recommends" from magicfilter?

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Subject: Why was gs-aladdin removed as "recommends" from magicfilter?
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 18:32:29 -0700 (MST)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.990406182818.2781A-100000@bob.localnet>

magicfilter 1.2-29 changed 

Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (>= 3.33) | gs-aladdin

to

Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (>= 3.33)

Isn't this carrying the free/non-free argument a bit far?

Bob

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