Jeff Spaleta (jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx) said: > The fact that poppler-utils only pulls in cmdline utlities helps > mitigate the complexity of the issue, but I'm still not convinced that > turning a runtime optional utility like pdfinfo into a hard > requirement is a good idea as general policy with regard to how > optional runtime options are treated in packaging. In my perfect > world, runtime optional dependancies would be treated as runtime > optional dependancies and not hard requirements. Well, you can look at it this way. If you're using Beagle, you're indexing your desktop & files on it. Are you really going to run a desktop without *some* sort of PDF viewer? > In my slightly better world of tomorrow, there would be the ability to > split out the cmdline utility ssindex and ssconvert from the gnumeric > application into a -utils subpackage so beagle could require the > simple cmdline utility without pulling in the gnumeric application, a > non-default gui application to sit in the menu structure next to > openoffice. Well, one idea would be to have a single document-parsing library that would do this sort of thing. This, of course, doesn't exist. Bill
