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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] questionable usefulness of virtual/pdfviewer,psviewer
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:42:40
Message-Id: 200603271940.10606.carlo@gentoo.org
1 Got a request¹ providing them, but I don't see any sense in it at all. The
2 only package using it is app-office/lyx. Imho the dependency should be
3 removed, since it is a optional runtime dependency the user has to configure
4 anyways, so it'll never work out of the box. This sort of virtual is only
5 useless bloat imho. I guess the same goes for virtual/textbrowser which is -
6 for whatever reason - the run- _and_ compile-time dependency of
7 app-text/docbook-sgml-utils.
8
9 Opinions?!
10
11
12 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127589

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Re: [gentoo-dev] questionable usefulness of virtual/pdfviewer,psviewer Stefan Schweizer <genstef@g.o>