http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1134808 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1134808#c1 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CONFIRMED Hardware|Other |All OS|Other |openSUSE Factory --- Comment #1 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com> --- On my openSUSE Leap 15.0 system (output excerpts): --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # zypper -v se -vf dvips ... | texlive-dvips-bin | package | ... | openSUSE-Leap-15.0-Oss filelist: /usr/bin/dvips ... # zypper -v in -D texlive-dvips-bin ... 2152 new packages to install. ... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ghostscript cannot recommend TeX because recommended RPMs get installed whenever the recommended RPMs are installable so that in practice on all openSUSE systems with the usual openSUSE repositories more than 2000 additional packages would get installed. Separating the dvi* tools into a ghostscript-dvi sub package is likely the usual technical "solution" but what real problem would that "solution" actually solve in the end for the users? An executable is provided by the ghostscript RPM that is useless for users who don't have TeX installed but who of those users would notice that useless ececutable? Hint: It is there this way "since ever" (at least since SLES11) and noone ever reported an issue. I would rather remove the dvi* tools from our ghostscript RPM to avoid such kind of issues once and for all and leave it to the openSUSE contributors who maintain TeX to provide and maintain what TeX needs in the TeX packages. FYI in general: I have almost no time to maintain all those various different kind of software packages that build the base printing system. I have no time at all to implement and continuously maintain anything that could make things any tiny bit more complicated than what is mandatory to keep the base printing system working. Things might change if openSUSE contributors would care more about all those various different kind of software packages that build the base printing system. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.