Comment # 1 on bug 1134808 from Johannes Meixner

On my openSUSE Leap 15.0 system (output excerpts):
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# 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.
...
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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.