zathura is a document viewer: synopsis: Lightweight keyboard-driven PDF viewer description: Zathura is a customizable document viewer. It provides a minimalistic interface and an interface that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.
Meanwhile, when you only install zathura itself, it's not usable for any format. You have to install zathura-pdf-poppler in order to be able to open PDF files. So, shouldn't zathura depend on zathura-pdf-poppler so that PDFs are viewable by default? On IRC, we agreed that zathura should depend on zathura-pdf-poppler: <mekeor> i just installed 'zathura', a PDF viewer. it doesn't work. i get this error first: "could not open plugin directory". can anyone reproduce this? <mekeor> oh, i think i have to additionally install another package. <mekeor> zathura-pdf-poppler <lfam> mekeor: If that's the cause, we should fix it! <mekeor> lfam: yes, it was the cause. <mekeor> lfam: there are several different backends for zathura. it's imaginable that a person wants to install zathura without PDF support but only postscript support, isn't it? <lfam> mekeor: It's imaginable, but we generally intend to provide fully featured packages <Sleep_Walker> question is - is there anyone who would like to have zathura and not zathura-pdf-poppler? <Sleep_Walker> and I agree that it is unlikely <Sleep_Walker> that is moment where weaker dependency like 'recommends' would come handy If you have a different opinion, let me know. Otherwise, I'm going to send a patch next week which implements this dependency.