Re: Conflict between print/xpdf and print/poppler-utils

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Oct 25, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Rhialto wrote:

> I'm building my pkgsrc-2009Q3 packages, and I'm running into the
> following conflict.
>
> print/xpdf and print/poppler-utils install nearly the same files. The
> main difference is that xpdf actually installs a PDF viewer (xpdf) and
> that poppler-utils installs an additional utility program (pdftohtml).
>
> The conflict is quite annoying, since poppler-utils is required by a
> higher-level package that I want (scribus, via cups), but I also  
> want a
> PDF viewer (in fact I want several, for use in case of compatibility
> problems).
>
> How to resolve this?


I wish I knew.  I've had to give up on xpdf; I now use epdfview and  
evince, and sometimes gv, but I'm not happy about it.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb