On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:33:09 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:

>   File-attached is the "emerge -pv okular" output.  To summarize...
> Total: 53 packages (50 new, 3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 329,492
> KiB
> 
> ...because a pdf-reader really needs libogg, libvorbis, www-misc/htdig,
> qtcore-4.8.6-r4, 2 versions of qtgui, qt3support, qtwebkit, libdbusmenu,
etc.

That's because Okular is not a PDF reader, it's a "Universal document
viewer", so it needs to support a lot of formats and protocols. That
does mean that if you need a simple PDF reader and don't run KDE, Okular
may well be way OTT, but it is very good at handling PDFs and forms.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

A real programmer never documents his code.
It was hard to make, it should be hard to read