Re: Ghostscript Dependency Problem

1996-10-27 Thread John Hasler
joost witteveen writes: > Sure, that's the best. But a lot of Debian maintainers don't really like > "non-free" to begin with, and don't like to give non-free the same > prefferential treatment the main system gets. Then get rid of it. Do it right, or not at all. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J

Re: Ghostscript Dependency Problem

1996-10-27 Thread joost witteveen
> There's nothing inherently unstable about non-free software, so I > think "non-free" and "unstable" should be orthogonal concepts. How > about a "non-free/stable" in which nothing depends on anything outside > of "stable", and a "non-free/unstable", in which anything goes? > Sure, that's the b

Re: Ghostscript Dependency Problem

1996-10-26 Thread Glenn Ammons
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > People seem to think that "non-free" is more stable than "unstable". > This is AFAIK not the case ("non-free" doesn't have the sabilising > time "stable/buzz" has), and therefore I don't know why people start > installing

Re: Ghostscript Dependency Problem

1996-10-26 Thread joost witteveen
> > Hi. When I try to install the Debian ghostscript package, dselect > notes that it depends on another package which is not available. It is available. People seem to think that "non-free" is more stable than "unstable". This is AFAIK not the case ("non-free" doesn't have the sabilising time

Ghostscript Dependency Problem

1996-10-25 Thread david scott gibson
Hi. When I try to install the Debian ghostscript package, dselect notes that it depends on another package which is not available. What do I need to do to either get this other package (I don't recall it's name at the moment) or get an older version of gs which does not have this dependency? Dave