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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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