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Re: more overly-generic package names from gnustep



On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:15:18PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> If yes, I would say: Keep the package name as it is (and get in contact
> with the xpdf and policy guys, create a virtual package and an
> alternatives entry "pdf-viewer"). If no, and pdfviewer depends on the
> tustep infrastructure to be useful - then I'd say keep the elegant and
> aesthetical way for some other competitor of xpdf.

There's already a pdf-viewer virtual package, which xpdf, gpdf and
gv (at least) provide. As to an alternatives entry, is that necessary?
It is already possible to launch a PDF viewer through the MIME system 
eg "see /path/to/my.pdf".


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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