[poppler] poppler-data , recommended or required ?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sat Jan 16 10:41:41 PST 2010


Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> A Divendres 15 Gener 2010 17:22:30, Rex Dieter va escriure:
>> While I have your ear... :)
>> 
>> Is the install of poppler-data alongside poppler more of a recommendation
>>  or a requirement?
>> 
>> I ask because it's README mentions only that it adds support for various
>> locales/encodings.  As such, currently in fedora's packaging, we install
>> it only when the language packs/support is installed for those mentioned
>> in README.
> 
> It is recommended as ¿most? of the files work without it.
> 
> I don't really understand the question.

Question is : should distros consider poppler-data a hard/required 
dependency or not?

-- Rex




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