On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:00:26PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:55:59PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * Jan Hauke Rahm <i...@jhr-online.de>, 2009-07-08, 19:36: > > >I'd like to have a new virtual package 'x-image-viewer'. All packages > > >providing that virtual package should be able to view images in common > > >formats (png, jpeg etc.). I'm thinking but that's pretty much all I can > > >say... It's obvious that I would want all image viewers to provide that > > >virtual package then. > > And such a package is needed because...?
> ...I'm working on a QA upload of xcftools which recommends basically all > x-image-viewers. It contains a program that is a wrapper script that > flattens an XCF image and displays it using an external PNG/PPM viewer. > I thought there might be more cases out there and thus started this > thread. If you all scream no, I'm fine with that, too. Just tell me :-P How does xcftools actually invoke the external viewer? Does it have a long list of commands to try? A virtual package only makes sense if it will also provide a standard interface that other packages will invoke. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
