Ghostscript in Software Updater

[littlekun]

hey guys, I just noticed this in my Software Updater. Please tell me what are these ghostscript and ghostscript-x?

Should I be worried about it?

[Storm]

No, any reason you should be?

[Kayjzjzk]

If I remember correctly ghostscript is part of GNU-core-utils and is used for pdf.
So you shouldn't worry

[Storm]

[littlekun]

@Storm

No, any reason you should be?

I'm unfamiliar with core Linux things, still a newbie. The name felt sus to me that's why it got my attention.

@Kayjzjzk

If I remember correctly ghostscript is part of GNU-core-utils and is used for pdf.
So you shouldn't worry

Thanks for the info.

@Storm

So it's needed for PDFs. Now I'm not worried.

[zenzen]

@littlekun

The name felt sus to me that's why it got my attention.

In that case I'll let you know right now about this thing called "tracker-miner-fs", which sounds terrifying at first but it's some sort of mechanism to index your files and directories to make searching them more efficient

[Mr_Magoo]

And rtkit daemon... it's not a rootkit. It's the Real-Time Kit, a D-Bus system service for scheduling user processes and threads.

[Kayjzjzk]

@littlekun

The name felt sus t

I think this is a opportune moment to introduce c++, mascot drawn by then GNU's president Richard Stallman

Also it's general wisdom to not name sus things with sus names