Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 09:40 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 13/04/2006 alle 11.46 +0200, Eduard Bloch ha scritto:
> [...]
> > > - evince
> >
> > As other pointed out, does basically the same job as xpdf but pulls half
> > of the Gnome.
>
> If you just want to display PDF files then probably xpdf is a better
> option, but Evince has a really nice feature: it show TIFF multipage.
> This is the *only* free software program I am aware of, that can show
> multipage tiff file.
Something that pulls in half of GNOME should not be part of a
"light desktop" meta-package. Let the user pull it in later if
desired.
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