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Bug 261638 - app-text/poppler should not hard-depend on app-text/poppler-data
Summary: app-text/poppler should not hard-depend on app-text/poppler-data
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED)
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Depends on: 264230
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Reported: 2009-03-08 02:26 UTC by Luke-Jr
Modified: 2009-04-27 21:34 UTC (History)
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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.