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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/epdfview
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:42:02
Message-Id: 5020E29B.6000904@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/epdfview by heroxbd@gentoo.org
1 On 08/07/2012 06:00 AM, heroxbd@g.o wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> writes:
5 >
6 >> # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> (7 Aug 2012)
7 >> # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6.
8 >> # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for
9 >> # removal in 30 days.
10 >> app-text/epdfview
11 >
12 > I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
13 > lightweight alternative. How about this time?
14
15 app-text/zathura-meta
16
17 (zathura supports both poppler and mupdf backends but only poppler
18 backend is in Portage for now because our mupdf package sucks wrt bugs
19 407805 and 407807)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/epdfview Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>