> > why not just provide a .bbappend file and an overriding file? > > Do you mean that I should integrate my version of the files into the > ghostscript package? > This is what I want to avoid because all cups-filters should reside in the > cups-filters package. >
It is not necessarily true that all cups-filter programs should reside in the cups-filters package. Remember that the CUPS system expects a PostScript printer, and the filters in the cups-filters package filter (or convert) non-PostScript input to PostScript. The ghostscipt package is a PostScript interpreter that is capable of taking a PostScript input file and producing output in several different formats. Since the ghostscript package creates filters that convert files from PostScript to a different format, both the gstopxl and gstoraster filter programs require the ghostscript interpreter package for them to execute properly. Note that the ghostscript recipe lists 'cups' in the DEPENDS. A system where the cups* packages are installed, but the ghostscript package is not can still print to a printer capable of accepting PostScript print jobs. Such a system would not be able to print to a PCL or dot-matrix printers however. -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
