FS#31768 - [poppler] make dependency on poppler-data optional
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Opened by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 02 October 2012, 14:47 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 18 February 2013, 14:46 GMT
Opened by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 02 October 2012, 14:47 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 18 February 2013, 14:46 GMT
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Poppler depends on poppler-data which is not a hard
dependency of the package. It provides encoding file for CJK
and Cyrillic, languages that some people might not need
support for.
Furthermore the license of the package is much more restrictive that the GPL poppler is licensed under. The data files are entirely optional for poppler to work, and can be detected if chosen to install. I think it makes sense to have them as an optional dependency of the package. |
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