Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Am 07.11.2013 14:31, schrieb Per Jessen:
I think we ought to keep acroread in the distro simply because it's about usability. The current suggestions:
a) download it from adobe yourself b) use something else
are not good enough. If (a) was a real solution, why are we building building a distro at all. (b) is not a solution because there is no 100% replacement for acroread.
By removing acroread, we are sacrificing critical usability because of a rule about unmaintained software. I suggest we reconsider and wait until the alternatives have caught up. Once we have a mature plug-compatible alternative, we can remove acroread.
"unmaintained" alone is not the big deal. But known exploited security issues probably are.
None were mentioned sofar, but yes, if they endanger the average user's system and open it to abuse, that is certainly a problem.
Unmaintained software can still get band-aids to fix security stuff usually if it's OSS. Shipping acroread further means putting known security backdoors into user's systems.
For any new users, perhaps.
To the other comment: We are building a distribution out of free software to make it easy for people to start working immediately.
Precisely. Not including important software doesn't enable to people to start working immediately.
In case of PDF they are good enough though.
Not judging by the current on that topic. Btw, do I need to do something special to make Okular support multiple document in one window (tabbed) ? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.8°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org