On Lu, 20 oct 14, 18:46:11, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 20/10/14 13:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Du, 19 oct 14, 15:35:47, Peter Nieman wrote: > >>Anyway, evince *recommends* dbus-X11, but after removing dbus it no > >>longer worked. > > > >Could you please elaborate on "it no longer worked"? Do you get any > >errors if you start it from a terminal? > > Yes, I got an error line, but I don't remember exactly what it was, only > that it was something about dbus (if my memory isn't failing me completely). > > What I had done is this (according to the aptitude log): > > I removed liferea, that removed gconf-service, gconf2, gconf2-common, > libgconf-2-4, libjson-glib-1.0-0, libunique-1.0-0, and liferea-data for no > longer being used. > > Then I removed dbus-x11 and dbus, which - thankfully - also removed > libsystemd-login0. > > After that, evince was no longer able to open any pdf files. > > But it doesn't matter to me any longer, as I'm no longer interested in > evince. qpdfview is much better anyway. The bug page of evince[1] has no mention of dbus. It might be that you discovered a rare bug and I'm sure evince's maintainers would be happy to know about it, assuming you can reproduce it. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=evince Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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