On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed the Evince browser plugin is not installed by default. It was > split into a subpackage to accommodate organizations that are concerned > about the security implications of displaying PDFs in the web browser, and > nothing installs the subpackage. This plugin is very good, and I want it to > be installed by default for all Epiphany users who have Evince installed, as > intended by upstream. (For Firefox users, it doesn't matter because Firefox > will use its own built-in PDF viewer in preference to the plugin, Firefox > makes it click-to-run which sucks, and Firefox hangs when it dlopens a GTK+ > 3 plugin anyway.) > > The correct solution in most distros would be for the evince package to have > a Recommends for the evince-browser-plugin package, so that users get it by > default but sysadmins can decide not to install it if need be. But we can't > use Recommends yet. :S > > So there are a few options I can think of: > > * Add a Requires from evince to evince-browser-plugin, to be changed into a > Recommends once we're allowed to use those. This will sadden those who do > not want the browser plugin, but it's the most "correct" approach. No because that will force it to be installed when evince is. > * Add a Requires from epiphany-runtime to evince-browser-plugin. That would > make Epiphany depend on Evince, and we don't want apps to depend on other > apps, so this is my least favorite option. But it is preferable to users > having to discover and install the plugin themselves. (It's a good plugin. > :) Again that would force the install of it.... it wasn't a good plugin only a few months ago because it was crashing evince even when not loading a pdf because epiphany loads all plugins at start not on demands (or it least it did a few months ago). > * Add evince-browser-plugin to the Fedora Workstation group in comps. This > is yucky since it only benefits Epiphany users, and Epiphany is not > installed by default. But I think it's preferable to a Requires from > Epiphany to Evince. Yes, this is the way to do it since it means that those that don't wish to have it installed can just remove it. > Any preferences or other suggestions? (If anyone can think of an option > that's actually good, that would be dandy.) > > Michael > > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
