ghostscript requires ttfonts-ja - why? ghostscript is perfectly usable without it if you don't ever plan to print japanese text (like maybe 90% of our users).
I dont care if you dont want to print japanese. Ghostscript is compiled needing those fonts. We had this discussion for 7.1, I am not changing it.
No it isn't. Try for yourself: - rpm -e --nodeps ttfonts-ja - print any non-Japanese document - watch it working.
I definitely agree with Bero. Ghostscript works just fine w/o ttfonts-ja, and now that there's a separate Japanese disc-1 there's no reason not to make a ghostscript-ja that depends on ttfonts-ja if you absolutely feel that it's necessary. I just did an up2date. It snarfed down the ghostscript from errata. It then snarfed down an absofsckinglutely useless 9 megs ttfonts-ja rpm for me which I promptly rpm'ed -e --nodeps after the ghostscript update.... It's wasting my space, and it's wasting RH's bandwidth and my bandwidth to have this dependency which, AFAIK, has no technical basis.
Downloading 9 megs at 56K can be soooo sloooooooooooooooooooooowwwww! I would really appreciate to get this fixed.
*** Bug 53660 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in 6.52-1