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Should zathura depend on zathura-pdf-poppler? |
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Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:01:22 +0100 |
zathura is a document viewer:
synopsis: Lightweight keyboard-driven PDF viewer
description: Zathura is a customizable document viewer. It provides a
minimalistic interface and an interface that mainly focuses on keyboard
interaction.
Meanwhile, when you only install zathura itself, it's not usable for any
format. You have to install zathura-pdf-poppler in order to be able to open PDF
files.
So, shouldn't zathura depend on zathura-pdf-poppler so that PDFs are viewable
by default?
On IRC, we agreed that zathura should depend on zathura-pdf-poppler:
<mekeor> i just installed 'zathura', a PDF viewer. it doesn't work. i
get this error first: "could not open plugin directory". can anyone reproduce
this?
<mekeor> oh, i think i have to additionally install another package.
<mekeor> zathura-pdf-poppler
<lfam> mekeor: If that's the cause, we should fix it!
<mekeor> lfam: yes, it was the cause.
<mekeor> lfam: there are several different backends for zathura. it's
imaginable that a person wants to install zathura without PDF support but only
postscript support, isn't it?
<lfam> mekeor: It's imaginable, but we generally intend to provide
fully featured packages
<Sleep_Walker> question is - is there anyone who would like to have
zathura and not zathura-pdf-poppler?
<Sleep_Walker> and I agree that it is unlikely
<Sleep_Walker> that is moment where weaker dependency like 'recommends'
would come handy
If you have a different opinion, let me know. Otherwise, I'm going to send a
patch next week which implements this dependency.
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