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From: Zhu Sha Zang <zhushazang@×××××××××.br>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I finally ditched acroread
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 03:42:35
Message-Id: bf8a9b6f-314d-ea66-d08f-f3e1a7abf717@yahoo.com.br
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] I finally ditched acroread by Grant Edwards
1 Hey dude, i have acroread installed but use okular since long time ago.
2 In fact my i was in doubt if acroread still installed. I'll uninstall
3 acroread, but how to recompile packages without 32-bit ABI? Is there a
4 smart way or I need to change e recompile each one?
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7 Best regards.
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10 On 10/22/2016 09:32 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
11 > For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one
12 > of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print
13 > current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document
14 > (usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet).
15 > Acroread is only available as a 32-bit binary and it required that
16 > _89_ packages be built with a 32-bit ABI use flag. [There are various
17 > other reasons to dislike acroread, but that's the one the really
18 > bugged me...]
19 >
20 > When I noticed that the latest versions of Qoppa's PDFStudio has added
21 > the "print current view" feature, I happily coughed up the $36 to
22 > upgrade.
23 >
24 > Emerge is now busy rebuilding those 89 packages without the 32-bit ABI
25 > use flags.
26 >

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