-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote:
>> Ah the hidden dependencies. xpdf is a dummy package, that pulls in >> xpdf-reader and xpdf-utils and xpdf-common. Adding those up comes quite >> close to what acroread uses, so I guess my comparison is pretty useless. > > Um, no. > > Compressed Size: Uncompressed Size > > xpdf-common 60.9 258 > xpdf-reader 769 1937 > xpdf-utils 1393 3543 > > total 2222.9 5738 > > acroread 22.9M 56M > > So acroread uses about 10 times as much space as xpdf (and I haven't > even looked closely at acroread's dependencies vs. those of xpdf). > gtk2 perhaps? That's a big one. Of course a lot of apps need that one. Not my KDE ones though. > > I'm not a hard-line purist, but enough of one to strongly prefer the > dfsg option barring a compelling reason otherwise. I agree, yet I get berated when I point out that Debian does not support acroread because it is proprietary to Adobe. Go figure. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+BYMiXBCVWpc5J4RAug0AJwOKqprUhh7xDK7B1Z+kb1VS64mLgCdGlSw tibPYIk1AWov07R5QGlK5Xw= =e7NU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
