From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mekeor Melire Subject: bug#25758: Should zathura depend on zathura-pdf-poppler? Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:01:22 +0100 Message-ID: <20170216180122.2f3a6fd7@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37446) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cePRY-0002Wv-JL for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:02:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cePRT-0002K5-3H for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:02:08 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44241) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cePRS-0002K1-Ve for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:02:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cePRS-0004YF-L2 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:02:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37021) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cePQw-0001Zm-My for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:01:31 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cePQw-0001s1-3A for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:01:30 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-x244.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::244]:33253) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cePQv-0001r7-Sh for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:01:30 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-x244.google.com with SMTP id v77so4082730wmv.0 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:01:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([2001:4ca0:0:f225:9ade:d0ff:fe15:14cb]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e73sm955803wmi.32.2017.02.16.09.01.28 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:01:28 -0800 (PST) List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 25758@debbugs.gnu.org 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: 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? oh, i think i have to additionally install another package. zathura-pdf-poppler mekeor: If that's the cause, we should fix it! lfam: yes, it was the cause. 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? mekeor: It's imaginable, but we generally intend to provide fully featured packages question is - is there anyone who would like to have zathura and not zathura-pdf-poppler? and I agree that it is unlikely 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.