[okular] [Bug 420775] Bad error message when opening .epub files without .epub support

Antonio Rojas bugzilla_noreply at kde.org
Fri May 1 12:37:57 BST 2020


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420775

Antonio Rojas <arojas at archlinux.org> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Antonio Rojas <arojas at archlinux.org> ---
(In reply to Volker Weißmann from comment #3)

> Are you sure? The Arch guys say that they are doing it right:
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66485
> 
> > On a more abstract note, what you're asking is impossible, Okular doesn't
> > know about it's plugins, there can be any number of plugins, shipped by
> > third parties (calligra for exmaple does) so it can't telll you what you are
> > missing to execute about a plugin it doesn't know about.
> 
> Can you try to figure this out with the Arch guys?

Nobody said anything about "doing it right". There is no "right" here, just
different opinions about how packaging should be done. Arch policy is not to
split plugins out of packages, and if you ask me an average Arch user should be
able to figure out this error message by themselves.

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