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On Saturday 28 Jan 2012 10:03:42 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 120128 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > One of the reasons for the 30 day warning |
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> > is to give you time to copy the ebuild to a local overlay |
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> > if you want to continue running the software at your own risk. |
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> I've already copied /usr/portage/app-text/xpdf/ to /usr/local/src/ : |
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> is there anything else I will need, if I decide to go that route ? |
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I'm reluctant to go down this route. Things that xpdf depends may or many not |
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be updated, then I'll have to keep an eye out for the latest xpdf code and |
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download and update this manually, as well as any dependencies which may fall |
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out of the tree. This will create a maintenance liability for me. |
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I'd like to continue using xpdf, but unless a maintainer shows up it'll have |
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to bite the dust. :-( |
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Anyhow, another alternative may be mupdf - it opens files when called from |
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another application (e.g. a browser) but unlike xpdf I have not found a way of |
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saving a file once opened without having to redownload it with the browser. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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