Re: RFS: pdfmerge
--- Philipp Gortan wrote:
> Hi mentors,
>
> thanks for your input,
>
> Ben Young wrote:
> > In a way I agree w/ Jepri. If I want a specific
> > script, I would like to be able to install it
> right
> > away (few Kbs of script in my system is ok!) and
> not
> > download the whole package of 32mb of a larger
> unknown
> > program with another weird name just to get that
> > script running.
>
> While I totally agree with you, this point doesn't
> work here as pdfmerge
> is dependent on gs-common, so apt will fetch it for
> you anyhow...
>
Yes you're right. Thank you for pointing that out.
> I think the question is: If I am a non-professional
> user and i wanted to
> merge a bunch of pdf files, would I know what to
> look for in dselect?
> I don't think that anyone would find out he needs to
> select a package
> called gs-common in order to get a program to merge
> pdf files...
> (I didn't knew it was the package that ps2pdf came
> from, until this
> discussion...)
> As gs-common is marked "optional", it isn't
> installed by default on a
> system, ifaik...
Yes I agree totally w/ the rephrasing.
Sincerely yours,
Ben Young,
Systems Engineer.
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