reopen 590785 thanks Debian Edu list in CC because it concerned the size of theri release DVD]
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:21:42PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: > Greetings! > > Alas, this cannot be done I'm sorry, I can not accept a "cannot be done", right? > as maxima hardcodes one viewer command into > its tcl script, There is no reason to a) not patch this script b) foreward the issue to upstream > and there is no generic command provided by packaged > providing the postscript-viewer pseudo package, AFAICT. > > application/postscript "gv -safer %s" That's no excuse. The bug should stay open to inform people about a problem and I rather think we should fix it from the other side and care for a propper postscript-viewer command (analogous to editor and view - or even enhance view). Kind regards Andreas. > Take care, > > Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> writes: > > > Package: maxima > > Severity: minor > > > > Hi, > > > > maxima recommends gv explicitely as pdf-viewer or postscript-viewer. > > Please use > > > > pdf-viewer | gv or > > postscript-viewer | gv > > > > depending of what type of documents will be really viewed. > > > > The rationale is that people who install maxima will currently be forced > > to install gv even if they do not want to. For instance if you install > > the education-mathematics package of Debian Edu which in principle > > prefers okular you can not avoid installing gv without extra effort and > > users become confused by more pdf-viewers / postscript-viewers than > > needed. > > > > Kind regards > > > > Andreas. > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > > APT prefers stable > > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-xenU (SMP w/1 CPU core) > > Locale: lang=de...@euro, lc_ctype=de...@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org > ========================================================================== > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah > -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100806192919.ga22...@an3as.eu
