Comment # 2 on bug 1134808 from Christian Boltz

(In reply to Johannes Meixner from comment #1)
> 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.

Agreed, that would be too much ;-)

> It is there this way "since ever" (at least since SLES11)
> and noone ever reported an issue.

I noticed it when reading and trying all the scripts in the ghostscript package
(basically to do a quick test if they work with the AppArmor profile, not to
actually convert files) so feel free to ignore me ;-)

> 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.

Coordinating with the TeX maintainer (and maybe moving dvipdf to the
texlive-dvips-bin package) indeed sounds like a good idea.

Another option would be to add a check with a more helpful error message to
dvipdf, for example

  which dvips &>/dev/null || {
     echo "dvips not found, please install the texlive-dvips-bin package"
     exit 1
  }

Whatever your time allows ;-)
(since this is only a minor annoyance, I'm even fine with a "wontfix")