Public bug reported:
The latexmk recommends "xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer", among other things.
However, "xpdf-reader" has not existed since Lucid, so APT attempts to
satisfy the virtual recommendation on "pdf-viewer". In Precise, this
was not a problem, because evince-gtk was the first choice for a PDF
reader. However, in Quantal, the first choice for this is okular, which
attempts pull in all of KDE with it.
Please update latexmk to Recommend "xpdf | pdf-viewer" so that it
actually tries an existing concrete package before the virtual one.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Install Ubuntu Server 12.10
2) apt-get install latexmk (or texlive-full, which is how I noticed this);
watch it pull in all of KDE.
References:
precise$ apt-get install pdf-viewer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package pdf-viewer is a virtual package provided by:
evince-gtk 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4
okular 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.1
evince 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4
zathura 0.0.8.5-4
xpdf 3.02-21build1
viewpdf.app 1:0.2dfsg1-3.1build2
gv 1:3.7.3-1
epdfview 0.1.8-1build1
quantal$ apt-get install pdf-viewer
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package pdf-viewer is a virtual package provided by:
okular 4:4.9.4-0ubuntu0.1
zathura 0.1.2-4
xpdf 3.03-9ubuntu5
viewpdf.app 1:0.2dfsg1-4
gv 1:3.7.3-1
evince-gtk 3.6.0-0ubuntu2
epdfview 0.1.8-3ubuntu1
evince 3.6.0-0ubuntu2
** Affects: latexmk (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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latexmk recommends non-existent package, pulls in KDE on Quantal
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