[users] Acroread package - never updated?

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:

> I've just installed acroread from RPMForge
> ( http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/acroread/ ). I've got version 5
> which is outdated by almost 4 years. Versions 7 and 8 are available from
> Adobe
> ( http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html ). Is
> it possible to upgrade the packages at RPMForge accordingly?

Technically it is possible. But practically it is not. The sheer size of
acrobat reader is just too big to offer it for all the distributions, that
is why I stopped updating it and I just have (an) outdated nosrc package
that people can use to build it themselves.

Sorry, but I do not understand why a PDF reader needs to be 100MB in size
and I am not interested in wasting my diskspace and bandwidth to promote
acroread in its current form.

Maybe within rpmrepo someone is interested to maintain it.

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