Bug#72980: virtual packages list layout
>>>>> "Josip" == Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> writes:
Josip> On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:25:20PM -0500, Steve Greenland
Josip> wrote:
>> > should also contain these virtual packages from the
>> Miscellaneous section: > > pdf-preview Any preprocessor that
>> creates PDF output > pdf-viewer Anything that can display PDF
>> files > postscript-preview Any preprocessor that creates
>> Postscript output > postscript-viewer Anything that can display
>> Postscript files
>>
>> Of what possible use are the "-preview" virtual packages? What
>> would depend on "any prepreprocessor that creates {PDF,PS}
>> output"?
Josip> I'm just as uninformed as you are about this, I just listed
Josip> those along with the other two...
The following packages, in potato, use postscript-preview in
some way.
Package: psptools
Provides: postscript-preview
Package: psutils
Provides: postscript-preview
Package: xpdf-i
Provides: pdf-viewer, postscript-preview
Package: xpdf
Provides: pdf-viewer, postscript-preview
Package: acroread
Provides: pdf-viewer, postscript-preview
No package currently depends/requires/suggests it. pdf-preview is not
used at all. Programs like gv (which can write postscript) and dvips
seem to be missing.
IMHO, the name "-preview" is misleading.
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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