Hi On Fri, Jun 04, 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: > poppler-data is essential for reading PDF files that contains Japanese > characters. Currently, PDF viewers suggest poppler-data, but it is > very difficult to figure out that this package needs to be installed > to see Japanese characters. Instead of asking to each PDF viewers to > recommend poppler-data, I wonder if libpoppler would not be a better > package to express this dependancy.
I think it's not a good tradeoff to pull poppler-data on all systems by default. I think package dependencies are a bit too limited to express "install this if you want Japanese support", I'd rather see this solved by: - creating Japanese support images/meta-packages (e.g. language-support-* in Ubuntu) - having a tool which installs the relevant packages when you want support for this or that language (language-selector in Ubuntu) Another alternative would be that the opening of .PDF documents requiring missing support files would trigger an offer to install the packages providing this support. This only works after the fact, but it's a nice fallback. This has been demonstrated for e.g. GStreamer plugins, Firefox extensions and the like already. Thanks for considering, -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
