diff --git a/pkgs/misc/ghostscript/ghostscript-8.54.nix b/pkgs/misc/ghostscript/ghostscript-8.54.nix
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+{ stdenv, fetchurl, libjpeg, libpng, zlib
+, x11Support, x11 ? null
+}:
+
+assert x11Support -> x11 != null;
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "ghostscript-8.54";
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ghostscript/ghostscript-8.54-gpl.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "5d0ad0da8297fe459a788200f0eaeeba";
+  };
+
+  fonts = [
+    (fetchurl {
+      url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz;
+      md5 = "6865682b095f8c4500c54b285ff05ef6";
+    })
+    # ... add other fonts here
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    libjpeg libpng zlib
+    (if x11Support then x11 else null)
+  ];
+
+  configureFlags = if x11Support then "--with-x" else "--without-x";
+}