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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:24:51
Message-Id: 20151002222432.43afe2e3@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment by Walter Dnes
1 On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:33:09 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
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3 > File-attached is the "emerge -pv okular" output. To summarize...
4 > Total: 53 packages (50 new, 3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 329,492
5 > KiB
6 >
7 > ...because a pdf-reader really needs libogg, libvorbis, www-misc/htdig,
8 > qtcore-4.8.6-r4, 2 versions of qtgui, qt3support, qtwebkit, libdbusmenu,
9 etc.
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11 That's because Okular is not a PDF reader, it's a "Universal document
12 viewer", so it needs to support a lot of formats and protocols. That
13 does mean that if you need a simple PDF reader and don't run KDE, Okular
14 may well be way OTT, but it is very good at handling PDFs and forms.
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18 Neil Bothwick
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20 A real programmer never documents his code.
21 It was hard to make, it should be hard to read