On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:58:49 +0100
Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Celejar wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:23:27 +0100
> > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > [snip]
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> >> As for acroread goes, it has turned into a huge package. The version in
> >> my apt-cache shows 7.0.9, which is not the newest version, and it's a
> >> whopping 22911748 bytes. I imagine that 8.0 is even bigger.
> >>
> >> While KPDF may not be as feature rich, it does the job, and weighs in at
> >> 742592 bytes, and can embed nicely into konqueror.
> >
> > Don't forget that kpdf is based on xpdf (which is what I use).
>
> Ah the hidden dependencies. xpdf is a dummy package, that pulls in
> xpdf-reader and xpdf-utils and xpdf-common. Adding those up comes quite
> close to what acroread uses, so I guess my comparison is pretty useless.
Um, no.
Compressed Size: Uncompressed Size
xpdf-common 60.9 258
xpdf-reader 769 1937
xpdf-utils 1393 3543
total 2222.9 5738
acroread 22.9M 56M
So acroread uses about 10 times as much space as xpdf (and I haven't
even looked closely at acroread's dependencies vs. those of xpdf).
> I guess it is almost like comparing different types of apples. The one
> thing to remember though is that all of the above mentioned files are
> open source except for acroread. For people that are dfsg purists, they
> would balk at the idea of installing it.
I'm not a hard-line purist, but enough of one to strongly prefer the
dfsg option barring a compelling reason otherwise.
> Personally, I have no problem with proprietary software, if there is no
> viable alternative. For example, I use the nvidia (9755) drivers
> because the open source version is pitifully slow on this system, and it
> can't support beryl.
Madwifi is one of the only non-free bits I use, and it is really in the
spirit of freedom.
Celejar
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