[users] Acroread package - never updated?

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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Dag Wieers wrote:
| 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 which is outdated by almost 4 years.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| is why I stopped updating it and I just have (an) outdated nosrc package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.

Given the amount of alternatives I wouldn't bother. One can use kpdf or
evidence for example as alternatives.

Hugo.

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