On 2012-Mar-05 09:39:52 +0900, Hiroki Sato <h...@freebsd.org> wrote: >Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@acm.org> wrote > in <20120304234053.ga51...@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>: > >pe> Could you please provide a rationale for ghostscript requiring libidn. >pe> It is difficult to see why a postscript interpreter needs to do any >pe> sort of DNS resolution. ports/165338 contains an alternative (and to >pe> my mind cleaner) fix. > > GS requires SASLprep (RFC 4013 and 3454) for PDF password > canonicalization (in Unicode). The libidn provides an API for that.
OK, thanks. That makes sense. Could you please close ports/165338 then. -- Peter Jeremy
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