>>>>> Igor Pechtchanski writes:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>> >>>>> Igor Pechtchanski writes:
>>
>> > setup is somehow failing in its dependency tracking. Alternatively,
>> > why not make 'gv' invoke '/usr/X11R6/bin/gs' explicitly, instead of
>> > searching for it in the PATH?
>>
>> I'm not sure, there was talk before that eventually the /usr/X11R6/
>> hierarchy will disappear.
> This is still a long way off, apparently, and the users are having gv
> problems now. Also, when this finally does happen, lots of things will
> need to be changed (gv not being the only one), so you'd be able to
> release a new version of gv then. Or, you could discuss with the
> maintainer of ghostscript-x11 what the /usr/X11R6/bin/gs executable will
> be called when it's moved to /usr/bin (e.g., "gs-x11"); add a postinstall
> script to the "gv" package that will conditionally create a
> /usr/bin/gs-x11 symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/gs, and use that name even now
> (that way, when the switch happens, the symlink won't be created and the
> real /usr/bin/gs-x11 executable will be used automatically).
Okidoki, this sounds fine...
> Igor
Ciao
Volker
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