[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#755071: evince-gtk still necessary?

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Thu May 14 12:25:25 UTC 2015


On jeu., 2015-05-14 at 14:23 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Hi Yves-Alexis,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 14.05.2015, 13:46 +0200 schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez: 
> > Note that Xfce maintainers aren't the only relevant people here,
> > although it might be the easiest to consult. I don't really like having
> > to force Xfce users to install libnautilus (which actually bother me
> > more than libsecret), but I'm pretty sure evince-gtk is used by a lot of
> > people from the “non DE” crowd (people using only a WM). Sure, they can
> > switch to xpdf instead, but evince-gtk was a really nice alternative I
> > think.
> 
> thank you very much for your reply. Indeed, I did not have the non-DE
> crowd in mind when requesting the removal of evince-gtk.
> 
> Actually, no file in /usr/bin/evice* is linked against libnautilus,
> but /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libevince-properties-page.so is:
> 
> $ ldd /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libevince-properties-page.so | grep nautilus
> 	libnautilus-extension.so.1 => /usr/lib/libnautilus-extension.so.1 (0x00007fa0da86e000)
> 
> Maybe this can be factored out into a separate package and everybody is
> happy?

I guess so, yes. If what annoys you most about evince-gtk is the double
build (which I can understand) and not the separate binary package, then
I guess it's the most sensible solution.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 473 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xfce-devel/attachments/20150514/e85ecae2/attachment.sig>


More information about the Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list