From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor.melire@gmail.com>
To: 25758@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25758: Should zathura depend on zathura-pdf-poppler?
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:01:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170216180122.2f3a6fd7@gmail.com> (raw)
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.
next reply other threads:[~2017-02-16 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-16 17:01 Mekeor Melire [this message]
2017-02-16 22:29 ` bug#25758: Should zathura depend on zathura-pdf-poppler? Alex Kost
2017-02-17 14:35 ` ng0
2017-11-08 21:04 ` bug#25758: (no subject) Mekeor Melire
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