Re: Bug#590785: maxima: Please enable alternative pdf-viewer / postscript-viewer
reopen 590785
thanks
Debian Edu list in CC because it concerned the size of theri release DVD]
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:21:42PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Alas, this cannot be done
I'm sorry, I can not accept a "cannot be done", right?
> as maxima hardcodes one viewer command into
> its tcl script,
There is no reason to
a) not patch this script
b) foreward the issue to upstream
> and there is no generic command provided by packaged
> providing the postscript-viewer pseudo package, AFAICT.
>
> application/postscript "gv -safer %s"
That's no excuse. The bug should stay open to inform people about a
problem and I rather think we should fix it from the other side and care
for a propper postscript-viewer command (analogous to editor and view -
or even enhance view).
Kind regards
Andreas.
> Take care,
>
> Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:
>
> > Package: maxima
> > Severity: minor
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > maxima recommends gv explicitely as pdf-viewer or postscript-viewer.
> > Please use
> >
> > pdf-viewer | gv or
> > postscript-viewer | gv
> >
> > depending of what type of documents will be really viewed.
> >
> > The rationale is that people who install maxima will currently be forced
> > to install gv even if they do not want to. For instance if you install
> > the education-mathematics package of Debian Edu which in principle
> > prefers okular you can not avoid installing gv without extra effort and
> > users become confused by more pdf-viewers / postscript-viewers than
> > needed.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> > APT prefers stable
> > APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> > Architecture: i386 (i686)
> >
> > Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-xenU (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> > Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Camm Maguire camm@maguirefamily.org
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