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Bug 401289 - sci-chemistry/xdsi needs to work also with different pdf viewers, not only xpdf
Summary: sci-chemistry/xdsi needs to work also with different pdf viewers, not only xpdf
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Science Related Packages
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Reported: 2012-01-29 11:42 UTC by Andreas K. Hüttel
Modified: 2012-01-31 08:30 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2012-01-29 11:42:49 UTC
[23:36:37] <dilfridge> jlec: ping
[23:36:57] <dilfridge> any chance that sci-chemistry/xdsi also works with a different pdf viewer?
[23:37:15] <dilfridge> xpdf needs to go the way of the dinosaur but is hardcoded as RDEPEND here
[23:37:48] <dilfridge> the website says "kpdf", which means okular probably works too, others maybe as well...
[10:14:07] <jlec> dilfridge: please file a bug, I will patch it.
[10:14:28] <jlec> dilfridge: is there any other cross WM pdf viewer available?

as far as I know at the moment, we have at least
* okular (kde)
* evince (gnome)
* acroread (...)
* gv (using ghostscript)
* epdfview (looks lightweight & ok, gtk+ plus poppler)
* mupdf (never tried)

xpdf is already lastrited and masked; I see only two ways how this could change:
* one of our devs wades through the patch mess
* the poppler-xpdf fork makes a release (but upstream is having a baby these days)
Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-01-31 08:30:07 UTC
+*xdsi-0.92-r1 (31 Jan 2012)
+
+  31 Jan 2012; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> -files/0.91-gentoo.patch,
+  +xdsi-0.92-r1.ebuild, files/0.92-gentoo.patch, -xdsi-0.91.ebuild,
+  -xdsi-0.92.ebuild, metadata.xml:
+  Optionally depend on media-gfx/graphicsmagick[image], #314369; exchange RDEP
+  xpdf -> mupdf, #401289; drop old
+