Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM
Johan Henriksson wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> #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?
Ahh, that is the blessing/curse of running Free Software/Linux. It is
great/terrible that you have such choice/duplication. You get to
find/stumble upon the program that does exactly/nothing what you want.
In any case, two of the three, at least (xpdf and evince) have a similar
core. It would be something if all three could standardize on poppler, eh?
-- John
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