Marc Balmer [2008-01-15, 15:10:26]:
> Landry Breuil wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:32:52PM -0800, Jeremy Evans wrote:
>>> On 11/14 08:56, Landry Breuil wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:38:38PM -0800, Jeremy Evans wrote:
>>>>> This diff adds a no_x11 flavor to textproc/xpdf.  This is necessary if
>>>>> you want to use the pdftotext program without X being installed.  This
>>>>> patch is the same is one sent last week, update to -current for the
>>>>> recent security patch to xpdf.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tested on i386. Please test and commit.
>>>> We (bernd and i) had a look at your previous patch, and it seems to make
>>>> more sense to have a multi-packages with xpdf-main and xpdf-utils, the 
>>>> latter
>>>> containing what corresponds to your no_x11 flavor.
>>>> An updated diff should appear soon, there is only a little issue about
>>>> upgrading from xpdf to xpdf-main+xpdf-utils which leads to conflicts.
>>> I agree, multi-packages make more sense.  I'm not sure if you had time
>>> to work on a diff, so I prepared one.  It is attached.  Hopefully we can
>>> work out the upgrade conflicts.
>>
>> Ah, yes, bernd@ sent me a diff a while ago about this one, with a
>> @pkgpath marker to solve the update/conflicts. It also moves pdftops to
>> -main package, i'm not sure if it's needed.. and -main doesn't
>> run_depends on -utils.
>>
>> xpdf users, what do you think about it ? Is it worth making this
>> MULTI_PACKAGES ? Attached diff needs comments and feedback.
>
> I'd prefer a single package.  i.e. users must have X11 installed.

I use both xpdf and pdftotext, and would also like to see them stay in
one package...

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