Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

[Johan Henriksson <mahogny@areta.org>]

Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 03:54:29PM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote:
>   
>> On Sunday 31 May 2009 15:32:25 John Goerzen wrote:
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>>> #2 and #4 especially should be exceptionally trivial patches.
>>>       
>>> Why are you tagging it wontfix, Sune?
>>>       
>> I see no reason to deviate from upstream's choices here, no matter how trivial 
>> the patches are.
>>
>> Here is no bug, so here is nothing to fix.
>>
>> There is a design decision you don't like, well. Learn to live with it. 
>>
>> If upstream changes, we will follow, though.
>> Just because we *can* patch things does not mean we should.
>>
>> And I consider this debate closed, and please find a different battle field that 
>> doesn't involve me for fighting DRM.
>>     
>
> Note that consistency between the pdf readers within the distro is
> worth keeping the debate open.
>   
if we wanted consistency then we would stick to a single PDF reader and
throw out the rest. if they all work the same then what's the point in
maintaining all of them?

/Johan


> Mike
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