openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

[Joachim Frieben]

"pdftex/pdflatex" is great but not sufficient, as many "tex" files need
plain "latex" to get compiled. Moreover, I hardly imagine moving
"tetex-xdvi" to "extras" whereas other "tetex-*" packages stay in "core".
I have had a look at "gtkdvi". It relies on "glib/gtk+" which have already
been moved to "extras", so no luck either!
A "dvi" viewer is certainly needed in core as many doc files currently are
"dvi" files. Forget about "gv". This is used by people who adopted it maybe
10 years ago and never got aware of alternatives. And it's in "extras", too.
I have rebuilt "evince" with "dvi" support, and it's not that bad! I suggest
to enable "dvi" support by default to encourage user feedback for fixing
open issues with it.

>
> It depends. One can use pdftex/pdflatex instead of tex/latex so that
> DVI viewers (and gv, dvips) are not needed in this case as the PDF is
> the only output. The dvips + gv way isn't always too smooth and I have
> to say that xdvi is still the best dvi viewer despite of its age.
>
> If the most of the teTeX users accepts the usage of pdftex tools, then
> moving at least some of the dvi tools to Extras makes sense.
>
> Jindrich
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