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Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package



On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:00:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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.
> 
Hi Ron,
I'd probabbly just use pdftotext on such a system.
cheers,
Kev

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