Maybe we can do without the /etc/xpdfrc file but its man-page? Fortunately, when I needed to specify the browser command in my $HOME/.xpdfrc today, the xpdf man-page happened to have the information I needed but there's likely other stuff in the xpdfrc man-page that I'll want to know about in future.
last I heard the xpdfrc is no longer needed because the fonts are now managed with fontconfig and freetype. What do you need xpdfrc for exactly? The xpdfrc manpage is still available in the xpdf-source I just removed ll xpdfrc stuff for the xpdf-poppler.
(In reply to comment #1) > last I heard the xpdfrc is no longer needed because the fonts are now managed > with fontconfig and freetype. > What do you need xpdfrc for exactly? What do I need it for exactly? A fully functional xpdf perhaps? Excuse the exasperated sarcasm but there are many options in xpdfrc and it isn't even true that the subset of the options in it concerning fonts are redundant (if they were, Derek would have deprecated or dropped them wouldn't he?). Removing important pieces of software packages on the basis of rumour is not very smart and I cannot understand why jakub@gentoo.org changed the severity to trivial either. This Gentoo introduced bug isn't trivial, it's just inexplicably careless and thoughtless.
I added both to the ebuild, thanks. Sync in two hours and remerge xpdf if you want to get them :)
Will do. Thanks for fixing it - and for your forbearance ;-)
