Bug 261638

Summary:	app-text/poppler should not hard-depend on app-text/poppler-data
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Luke-Jr <luke-jr+gentoobugs>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) <loki_val>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	please.no.spam.here, printing
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	264230
Bug Blocks:

Description Luke-Jr 2009-03-08 02:26:50 UTC

This dependency breaks the ability to have a (reasonable) desktop PC using Free software. Older versions had a 'cjk' USE flag to control the dependency (which is only used for non-Latin non-embedded fonts). Peter Alfredsen removed the USE flag on Oct 8, 2008 "because all it does is pull in a data-package"-- hardly a valid reason, IMO.

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-08 09:28:51 UTC

Reassigning to printing herd.

Comment 2 Luke-Jr 2009-03-31 00:38:17 UTC

I see no mention of poppler-data or its relationship in bug 264230.

Comment 3 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-31 00:49:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> I see no mention of poppler-data or its relationship in bug 264230.

The split poppler packages will have a useflag for poppler-data.

Comment 4 Luke-Jr 2009-04-08 20:15:13 UTC

poppler-data should be *unset* by default. It's rare that anyone would need it.

Comment 5 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-08 20:51:18 UTC

Poppler is not fullfeatured without it. Default will continue to be +.

Comment 6 Luke-Jr 2009-04-08 21:36:06 UTC

By definition, no ebuild is full-featured without every USE flag enabled.
poppler-data provides no benefit whatsoever to the vast majority of users.

Comment 7 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-27 21:34:33 UTC

Fixed in dev-libs/poppler.