ghostscript8-nox11 - why new dependency on cups-*?

[Darin]

Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have one question to somebody with enough knowledge of ghostscript / 
> cups ports.
> I am using ImageMagick for image work in some webapplication on our 
> webservers, ImageMagick has dependency on ghostscript8 and in today 
> upgrade process I realized new dependency of ghostscript on cups-image 
> and cups-client. I don't like to install new and new unwanted 
> dependencies on production webservers, so I am asking - for what are 
> needed those two new dependencies after "minor update" from
> ghostscript8-nox11-8.64_1 to ghostscript8-nox11-8.64_2
>
> Can cups-* be made as optional dependency?
>
> /# pkg_info -rR ghostscript8-nox11-8.64_1
> Information for ghostscript8-nox11-8.64_1:
>
> Depends on:
> Dependency: expat-2.0.1
> Dependency: gsfonts-8.11_4
> Dependency: png-1.2.35
> Dependency: jpeg-6b_7
> Dependency: pkg-config-0.23_1
> Dependency: freetype2-2.3.9_1
> Dependency: fontconfig-2.6.0,1
> Dependency: libiconv-1.11_1
> Required by:
> ImageMagick-nox11-6.5.1.1
>
>
> /# pkg_info -rR ghostscript8-nox11-8.64_2
> Information for ghostscript8-nox11-8.64_2:
>
> Depends on:
> Dependency: expat-2.0.1
> Dependency: gsfonts-8.11_4
> Dependency: cups-client-1.3.10_2
> Dependency: png-1.2.35
> Dependency: jpeg-6b_7
> Dependency: tiff-3.8.2_3
> Dependency: cups-image-1.3.10_2
> Dependency: pkg-config-0.23_1
> Dependency: freetype2-2.3.9_1
> Dependency: fontconfig-2.6.0,1
> Dependency: libiconv-1.11_1
> Required by:
> ImageMagick-nox11-6.5.1.10
>
> Miroslav Lachman
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I second Miroslav's question.   I just noticed this as well. 
I just went to upgrade ghostscript to the latest version, and it started 
to compile in cups-image and cups-client.  I don't run cups on my 
webserver, and I don't want the extra unnecessary code lying around on 
the system.  Is there a way to prevent this?

Darin -