Updating to Rawhide

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Thu Nov 17 16:46:35 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 11:42 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 11/17/05, David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I was serious, but I was misremembering something:  Evince can handle
> > dvi files, but it's an experimental feature, and IIRC Fedora's Evince
> > packages are configured to disable it.  So yes, I have opened dvi files
> > using evince, but I had to rebuild it myself to do so.
> 
> How about we get this turned on in rawhide/test releases so fedora
> people can beat on the dvi support?  If it still unusable near the end
> of the fc5 testing phase i won't cry if its turned back off again. But
> it seems a waste to keep this out of the hands of rawhide users if the
> goal is to get more testing and bugs reported about the dvi feature.
> Or is the goal here to have it linger in "experimental" state for the
> next year?
> 
Maybe; it's probably best to file a bug in our bugzilla against evince
requesting the feature and have the discussion there.

Dave




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