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

[Volker Weißmann]

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

--- Comment #5 from Volker Weißmann <volker.weissmann at gmx.de> ---
(In reply to Antonio Rojas from comment #4)
> (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, 

Can you give me a link the this Arch policy? I didn't find it here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_package_guidelines

> and if you ask me an average Arch user should
> be able to figure out this error message by themselves.

I also eventually found out that I need to install the ebook-tools package, but
I'm not really happy with the way it is. It feels like a "this is why we can't
have nice things" moment.

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