Re: apsfilter6 port.

[Andreas Klemm <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:00:01AM -0500, dave wrote:
> Hello,
>     I'm trying to get apsfilter going on my system. I'm wondering which of
> the various imput types has an x dependency, I'd like to not install x if
> possible.

The FreeBSD ports collection takes care of that in some
parts ...
a) there is a gs port without X11
b) apsfilter port (with BATCH turned on) only chooses a small
   filter set (plain PS, a2ps).

After that you can add filters as you need ...

You can browse through the ports collection, to see,
what converters need X and which not. See /usr/ports/INDEX file,
there is an overview of all available ports and its dependencies,
so you should easily be able to sort that out...

Of course you have to know, *which* (non-x11) translators are available.

But that you can find out by browsing through apsfilter code...
If there are alternatives, then they are mentioned.

Then you have to look in the FreeBSD ports collection, in which
tool they reside, http://www.freebsd.org/ports

Script based (lots of quicker)

for i in list of progs
do
	cd /usr/ports; find -name "pkg-plist" | xargs grep -i $i
	or even faster
	locate pkg-plist | xargs grep -i $i | tee ports.log
done

Thats one of the advantages of the freebsd ports collection.
You deal with browseable/searchable ASCII files, where you can
find out a lot of things using perl, find, grep, xargs ...

If I remember right on the www.apsfilter.org pages is a tabular,
which tells you, what tool for what filetype. Basically we use
convert, but thats using X11 ... Well, you have to look for
replacement tools. There are some available ...

	Andreas ///

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