--- Philipp Gortan wrote: > Hi mentors, > > thanks for your input, > > Ben Young wrote: > > In a way I agree w/ Jepri. If I want a specific > > script, I would like to be able to install it > right > > away (few Kbs of script in my system is ok!) and > not > > download the whole package of 32mb of a larger > unknown > > program with another weird name just to get that > > script running. > > While I totally agree with you, this point doesn't > work here as pdfmerge > is dependent on gs-common, so apt will fetch it for > you anyhow... >
Yes you're right. Thank you for pointing that out. > I think the question is: If I am a non-professional > user and i wanted to > merge a bunch of pdf files, would I know what to > look for in dselect? > I don't think that anyone would find out he needs to > select a package > called gs-common in order to get a program to merge > pdf files... > (I didn't knew it was the package that ps2pdf came > from, until this > discussion...) > As gs-common is marked "optional", it isn't > installed by default on a > system, ifaik... Yes I agree totally w/ the rephrasing. Sincerely yours, Ben Young, Systems Engineer. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
