Re: ... and yet again, an upgrade is damaging

David Tio <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Nov 2004 06:22:26 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.arklinux.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> /me wonders if rpm changed its behavior in Provides:/Obsoletes: lately... 
> espgs provides ghostscript (and has always done so), but it doesn't seem to 
> be picked up on some boxes.

Nods nods, the behaviour is indeed strange. apt-get install hpijs, complains
about ghostscript which is needed by some other apps. But here is the work around

apt-get remove espgs 
apt-get install hpijs espgs gv ghostscript-fonts

At least it works here, but it still doesn't make sense