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mijenix
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 Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject: shouldn't cups depend on ghostscript-esp? |
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Hi
I installed cups. I configured my HP LaserJet 6MP.
After configuring it, I would print a testpage, but I see that the job was cancelled.
I looked in the cups_error and saw that:
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E [05/Aug/2006:20:15:05 +0200] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 4!
I [05/Aug/2006:20:15:05 +0200] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
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I emerged ghostscript-esp since then, the testpage was printed out.
But I'm a little bit confused, why portage does not emerges ghostscript-esp when I emerge cups?
Is there any useflag I don't set? Or why I need manually install ghostscript-esp?
My useflags:
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USE="x86 X acpi alsa asf avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cdr cdrom css cups dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode gdbm gif jpeg jpeg2k libwww mad mmx mp3 ncurses nls no-seamonkey nptl nsplugin ogg opengl pcmcia pcre pdf png python quicktime readline samba session spell sse sse2 ssl svg tiff truetype truetype-fonts udev vorbis win32codecs x264 xml xmms xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_fglrx"
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mijenix
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| should I post a bug for this? |
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carl.anderson
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| Did you have a version of ghostscript installed before esp? You might want to try emerging ghostscript-gpl instead of ghostscript-esp, since it seems that development on ghostscript-gpl is more active. |
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mijenix
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
No but I thought that when I emerge cups, portage will automatically emerge a ghostscript when it's really needed.
That's the point that I don't understand and makes fear for me.
Or did I miss a useflag for that or is it possible that cups don't need ghostscript to print? |
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carl.anderson
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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It looks like ghostscript has a cups useflag, but not the other way around. Looking at the ebuilds, >=cups-1.2 declared virtual/ghostscript as a PDEPEND, which means ghostscript has to be merged after cups.
I'm assuming you had installed a 1.1.X version of cups, so that explains the missing dep, but I have a hard time understanding how this would have eluded the cups ebuild maintainers thus far. There's probably a reason.
However, if you had been installing >=cups-1.2, it should have included some version of ghostscript. The other possibility is that it did in fact install ghostscript-gpl (or some other non-esp flavor) and then failed to use it properly. In that case, cups depends on ghostscript-esp and I'd say you should file a bug for that. |
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Napalm Llama
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Hi, I've posted a bug which is similar to this:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144751
As I said at the end of the report, as far as I can tell, making the cups ebuild depend on virtual/ghostscript should solve both our problems.
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genstef
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, this was a temprorarily bug because I did not know that built_with_use dies when the package is not installed.
It was introduced 17Aug and fixed 18 Aug. |
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chtephan
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| Has Easysoft already integrated all their features with ghostscript-gpl? I haven't seen an announcement yet that ghostscript-esp is history. |
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Napalm Llama
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I've emerge --sync'd now and everything seems fine. Funny though, because I normally sync every two days... but my emerge.log confirms that my last sync was indeed on the 18th. How odd 
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