Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-29 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 Jan 2012 19:38:26 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 06:06:33PM +, Mick wrote: another application (e.g. a browser) but unlike xpdf I have not found a way of saving a file once opened without having to redownload it with the browser. I'd look

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 04:53:44 Philip Webb wrote: 120128 Mick tried to emerge epdfview and it failed: # emerge -uaDv epdfview These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-text/epdfview-0.1.6-r1 USE=cups nls -test 397 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:58:16 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I very much hope there is at least an alternative or otherwise some reconsideration of removing Xpdf from Gentoo. One of the reasons for the 30 day warning is to give you time to copy the ebuild to a local overlay if you want to continue

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Philip Webb
120128 Neil Bothwick wrote: One of the reasons for the 30 day warning is to give you time to copy the ebuild to a local overlay if you want to continue running the software at your own risk. I've already copied /usr/portage/app-text/xpdf/ to /usr/local/src/ : is there anything else I will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 Jan 2012 10:03:42 Philip Webb wrote: 120128 Neil Bothwick wrote: One of the reasons for the 30 day warning is to give you time to copy the ebuild to a local overlay if you want to continue running the software at your own risk. I've already copied

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2012/1/28 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Saturday 28 Jan 2012 10:03:42 Philip Webb wrote: ... another application (e.g. a browser) but unlike xpdf I have not found a way of saving a file once opened without having to redownload it with the browser. I'd look into /tmp, it'll probably be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
Is there an alternative which doesn't require eg 'kdelibs' or similar ? In my netbook, Xpdf is the only method I have of reading PDFs, as I use Fluxbox don't have KDE installed at all. It should not stop you from trying okular (kdelibs based) and evince (libgnome based). They are really neat.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Philip Webb
120128 Sergei Trofimovich wrote: Is there an alternative which doesn't require eg 'kdelibs' or similar ? In my netbook, Xpdf is the only method I have of reading PDFs, as I use Fluxbox don't have KDE installed at all. It should not stop you from trying okular (kdelibs based) Well no ! -- I

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread walt
On 01/27/2012 07:24 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I very much hope there is at least an alternative or otherwise some reconsideration of removing Xpdf from Gentoo. I use evince, myself. Me too, but it does require some cruft

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 Jan 2012 10:51:23 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2012/1/28 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Saturday 28 Jan 2012 10:03:42 Philip Webb wrote: ... another application (e.g. a browser) but unlike xpdf I have not found a way of saving a file once opened without having to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 Jan 2012 13:30:50 Philip Webb wrote: 120128 Sergei Trofimovich wrote: Is there an alternative which doesn't require eg 'kdelibs' or similar ? In my netbook, Xpdf is the only method I have of reading PDFs, as I use Fluxbox don't have KDE installed at all. It should not

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread walt
On 01/28/2012 10:06 AM, Mick wrote: It used to be the case that FF would drop temporary downloads in /tmp, but I can't find them in there any more. It may depend on which FF plugin is displaying the download, not sure. Anyway, you might try lsof while FF is still displaying it. i.e. pause the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 28.01.2012 19:06, schrieb Mick: On Saturday 28 Jan 2012 10:51:23 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2012/1/28 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Saturday 28 Jan 2012 10:03:42 Philip Webb wrote: ... another application (e.g. a browser) but unlike xpdf I have not found a way of saving a file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 06:06:33PM +, Mick wrote: another application (e.g. a browser) but unlike xpdf I have not found a way of saving a file once opened without having to redownload it with the browser. I'd look into /tmp, it'll probably be there. It used to be the case

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Philip Webb
120128 Mick tried to emerge epdfview and it failed: # emerge -uaDv epdfview These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-text/epdfview-0.1.6-r1 USE=cups nls -test 397 kB [snip ...] PDFDocument.cxx: In member function ‘virtual

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-27 Thread Philip Webb
120127 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: # Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org (27 Jan 2012) # Has developed into an unmaintainable mess, and everyone who # knows about it is either retired or missing in action. # Several minor bugs and one ugly security issues (#386271). # Masked for removal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120127 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: # Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org (27 Jan 2012) # Has developed into an unmaintainable mess, and everyone who # knows about it is either retired or missing in action. # Several