On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:21:18PM +0100, Steven Mestdagh wrote:
> 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...

Ok, so i suppose it'll stay like that... the patch is still available
for people really wanting this.

Landry

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