From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: [mpeters@laptop ~]$ texdoc prosper-doc [mpeters@laptop ~]$ /usr/bin/texdoc: line 193: xpdf: command not found Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tetex-3.0-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. don't install xpdf 2. do install tetex 3. texdoc somepackage-doc Actual Results: /usr/bin/texdoc: line 193: xpdf: command not found Expected Results: If it is going to use xpdf for documentation display, it should require it. Additional info: I can understand not wanting X or X dependencies on a server that may have tetex installed, so this is a bug that can be ignored. However, since Fedora is defaulting to evince for pdf document display, perhaps texdoc should look for evince rather than xpdf, as it is more likely to find evince on fc4
I see that after installation of tetex-3.0-4, texdoc launches html viewer by default: [jnovy@obelix ~]$ texdoc -v latex (htmlview /home/jnovy/texmf/doc/help/Catalogue/entries/latex.html) 2>/dev/null || firefox /home/jnovy/texmf/doc/help/Catalogue/entries/latex.html & I think it's a bad idea to hardly require xpdf in tetex as there exit other ways how to read TeX documentation. If we add a xpdf requirement, then we need to add a handful of other requirements such as firefox, etc.