Re: Bug in acroread?
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Celejar wrote:
>> Ah the hidden dependencies. xpdf is a dummy package, that pulls in
>> xpdf-reader and xpdf-utils and xpdf-common. Adding those up comes quite
>> close to what acroread uses, so I guess my comparison is pretty useless.
>
> Um, no.
>
> Compressed Size: Uncompressed Size
>
> xpdf-common 60.9 258
> xpdf-reader 769 1937
> xpdf-utils 1393 3543
>
> total 2222.9 5738
>
> acroread 22.9M 56M
>
> So acroread uses about 10 times as much space as xpdf (and I haven't
> even looked closely at acroread's dependencies vs. those of xpdf).
>
gtk2 perhaps? That's a big one. Of course a lot of apps need that one.
Not my KDE ones though.
>
> I'm not a hard-line purist, but enough of one to strongly prefer the
> dfsg option barring a compelling reason otherwise.
I agree, yet I get berated when I point out that Debian does not support
acroread because it is proprietary to Adobe. Go figure.
Joe
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