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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> the following commit
> commit eb354bdacbf4154ec66038dac07f19bf4ced1fad
> Author: Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org>
> Date:   Mon May 9 15:54:34 2016 +0200
>
>     gnu: ghostscript: Do not build the statically-linked 'gs' binary.
>
>     * gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm (ghostscript)[arguments]: Remove
>     'build-so' and 'install-so' phases.  Replace 'build' and 'install'
>     phases.
>
> removes "gs" from the ghostscript package. However, this is the usual pro=
gram
> that people expect. For instance, unison uses it for building its
> documentation. Is there a dynamically linked binary which replaces gs?
> If yes, should we add a symbolic link?
>
> If not, I would suggest to revert this commit.
>
> Ceterum censeo that we should not optimise for size by sacrificing
> functionality and ease of handling (cf. separate outputs).

+1

This broke 'chez-scheme' as well on core-updates.

Fede