From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Prvzn-0000ar-4V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:25:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 559BE1C061; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:25:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE9F01C011 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:25:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so6903833wwi.10 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:25:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MCJBQwnHACIk6GfyPNiEFayseA6rl5ws9qxhv4AkPqs=; b=RoYf5+pZbjbB+wzGp/z3IjKJ68wKqyHSFz3jmHgzH0QBRPYO0qAQJe15HsrycPJhrS x5H/WIe7NkUx6uGohDRmx9WAKwaiR45sQ2U9Q9VppgNX0/o/dcmEHnLm2Kmpgy9P4W+/ R4ECGc63CfqPbsucl52SL9GCccKG7ad0qOwx4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Md9GBKN68+39q2zT8Kavz4Lz3Kj/CECX7tiu4C99Sg+bT+348r6QqxzGDDsjyLNpCB 4czjFoNowwXni7IsbkHphog4uoMKGUGtAJUn8L2np7INWXKXYRAEyyPbh8tMIPjqnimh JD9aTKmL2kyVDfaD8wuiV4yjCcjJd3oQ1ta7M= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.19.207 with SMTP id n57mr3057103wen.30.1298395458576; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:24:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.172.207 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:24:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4D634A84.6010407@gentoo.org> <19811.26050.482587.875149@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <201102220300.10071.vapier@gentoo.org> <19811.31252.358245.222934@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:24:18 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib From: Francesco R To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fb7d84c526145600a5a1e77766d88770 2011/2/22 Rich Freeman : > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> that might disallow it for binaries, but it doesnt disallow it from >>> being used in ebuilds. same situation as binary kernel drivers -- >>> make it the end user's problem. >> >> Why should we impose such trouble on our users, when there's a (IMHO >> superior) replacement? Build gnuplot with USE=3D"cairo" and you can get >> PDF output with the "pdfcairo" terminal. Even with proper utf-8 >> support, which was always broken with pdflib. > > +1 to both - if a free alternative works then we should always prefer > it. =A0However, at worst linking license issues should just force us to > set RESTRICT=3D"bindist" or the like (and mirror as well if we can't > distribute the source). =A0As long as users don't redistribute software > they don't need to worry about licenses if the person sending it to > them had the license to distribute it in the first place. > > Rich > Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a thin pdf layer. pdflib is generating vector pdf which is a different thing.