Re: intent to do a poppler transition
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:43:43PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> wrote:
> > Frank Küster wrote:
> > > It's completely inacceptable for pdftex to acquire a dependency on gtk
> > > or qt. If using plain libpoppler turns out to be impossible, we'd
> >
> > Nearly 1000 packages in sid depend on glib, it's not that it's a completely
> > obscure lib causing major problems. Please elaborate why that is "completely
> > unacceptable".
>
> TeX is a system targetted as well at server systems as at user systems.
> We already get complaints that it requires some X libs. Therefore I
> don't think it would server our users, at least this part of our users,
> to add in glib and libgtk.
It's only about glib, not gtk. glib is a rather lightweight dependency,
compared to the size of tetex-bin and its dependency chain. I doubt
anybody will complain.
Daniel.
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