some package splits

Zack Cerza zcerza at redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 16:19:09 UTC 2008


Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Last night I built a new evince, and since evince backends are modular
> now, I've split off the dvi and djvu backends as subpackages, evince-dvi
> and evince-djvu. This allows us to avoid the extra dependencies on the
> live cd that those backends would drag in. I've made the new subpackages
> installed by default in comps, but you may have to manually install them
> if you are updating from an older version of evince. 
> 
> Another package split is that there is now a poppler-glib (and
> -glib-devel) package. Please adjust your dependencies accordingly.
> 
> 
> Matthias
> 

Very cool; now evince only wants djvulibre and qt installed, instead of 
all of texlive. But I can't help but wonder, is there a way to shave off qt?

Zack




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