Qutebrowser is able to use pdfjs from Mozilla (it has to be enabled per option). Simply using it currently fails, because of a missing pdfjs. According to Qutebrowsers, pdfjs can be placed at different locations: 1. Local home 2. Qutebrowsers global extension directory 3. Systemwide installation Gentoo offers a www-plugins/pdfjs package, that works well together with qutebrowser. It would be nice, if you add a pdfjs useflag, to pull pdfjs as dependency and eventually enable the option per default.
why has this not been accepted? can i be the maintainer for qutebrowser for gentoo?
FWIW, PDF support with www-plugins/pdfjs is mentioned as an optfeature already (and was for a long time), which is the right way. So this is really invalid.
Already mentioned as optional in the ebuild.
Can you leave this open as reference to Runtime-switchable USE flags? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424283 Generally I find an useflag meaningful in this case. The usecase are clear dependencies. If I currently merge qutebrowser and pdfjs I get two entries in my world file, but the only usage of pdfjs is within qutebrowser. I don't need it, if qutebrowser is not installed. If I would unmerge or depclean qutebrowser, pdfjs would remain and I have to clean it up seperately.
