Re: ghostscript dependancy in the autopackage

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Guy Banay writes:

> The Lilypond autopackage (version 2.6.1) will not install on systems
> without Ghostscript >= 8.15 despite GS being an optional runtime
> dependancy and lilypond can run without it.

What does `will not install' mean?  Did you try the full package?

> It would be more appropriate imho to issue a warning but let the
> installation complete, especially considering that even though the
> PS output cannot be read without GS>=8.15 the pdf output is still
> perfectly readable.

PDF is generated from the PS by ghostscript.

Jan.

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