Why are you replying to a thread that has already been resolved? Please stop.
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Enrico Weigelt <weig...@metux.de> wrote: > * Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> schrieb: > >> If it turns out there is no easier way of properly fixing this, >> we may have to split poppler-utils out from poppler. > > ACK. Having separate packages for public libraries and utils > which just happen to use these libs should be the default case. > Not just because of circular deps - which, in 99.99% have > absolutely _no_ technical reason, beside certain people's mental > lazyness (at least that's what my about 20yrs swe experience > shows up ;-o) - but also a matter of clean sw design. > > This should start at the source, so if upstream doesnt want to > fix this, let's fork. (i'm hereby volunteering as maintainer). > > > cu > > PS: please no "we're not debian"-flamewars ;-o > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: > http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce > Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: > http://patches.metux.de/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
