Re: Cups and Ghostscript

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:11:57PM +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> Also, CUPS now pretty much requires cups-filters. Which in turn depends
> on both ghostscript and poppler. That is rather a waste, two big
> dependencies for the same thing. And I was under the impression that
> poppler was used as a replacement for ghostscript anyway.

Not really. Poppler is generally used for processing PDFs where
Ghostscript is primarily used for rendering Postscript (and sometimes
PDF) to raster formats.

Joerg