On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:15:03AM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:40:31PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >>Package: xpdf-utils > >>Version: 3.01-9 > >>Severity: wishlist > >> > >>It's not unreasonable to want both packages installed, so can't they > >>use alternatives? > > > >They provide the same commands and functionality. > > If that's true, one of them should be removed. Should I file a different > bug to this effect?
I don't know that that would help. From my point of view, poppler-utils has made a hostile takeover of xpdf's role and namespace, but some people probably prefer it. > >Why do you want to install both? > > Because they work slightly differently. For example, I was nearly able to > solve a printing problem with CUPS today by using poppler-utils instead of > xpdf-utils. Not quite, but pstopdf from poppler-utils worked better than > xpdf-utils's pstopdf. Could you please submit a bug report with an attached PDF for the faulty behaviour you saw with xpdf-utils? Thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
