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Re: Acrobat 7.0 for linux is out



On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 11:27 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 07:55 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 07:09 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > > 39 MB for a PDF reader?!!!  96 MB installed!
> > > 
> > > This is getting insane.  OTOH, it's nice to see a color interface on a
> > > par with the Windows versions.  Even better, the interface now works
> > > with my wheel mouse by default.
> > 
> > It's probably statically-linked.
> 
> It provides everything it needs itself. 
> 
> And they included the version specific libraries too. How nice. 24.5MB
> right there.
> 
> 
>   828940 libACE.so.2.07
[snip]
>   211682 libssl.so.0.9.6
> 
> Nice eh?

Yes, and smart of them.  I concur with Roberto: the best way for
a closed-source, commercial, end-user app to ensure that needed
dependencies are met is... to ship the dependencies with the app.

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