On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 07:24:54PM +0100, Hazel Russman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 09:02:37, Juergen Daubert wrote: Thanks for the info. I've solved the issue and changed cups as discussed by adding poppler to its dependency and setting --with-pdftops=pdftops [1].
If you do it that way, we shall all need to install poppler even if we have xpdf installed already (I am in this position!)
You don't have to, cups builds and works just fine with an installed xpdf ;) I decided to use poppler instead of xpdf in the cups port, because it's an actively maintained library and used by a couple of pdf-viewer like raktpdf [1].
Gentoo handles this sort of thing by making the dependency refer to a "virtual" package, which can correspond in practice to any of several different real packages. Is there anything like that in Crux?
Partly, prt-get has a undocumented feature called "aliases", see /var/lib/pkg/prt-get.aliases. Adding 'xpdf: poppler' should work at first sight, but it doesn't consider the dependencies of poppler, they are still listed by prt-get. Greetings Juergen [1] ftp://ftp.code-monkey.de/pub/raktpdf/