Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

[Michael S. Gilbert]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:49:57 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > it seems like ghostscript support in evince is a bonus feature (rather
> > a core component).  it would be nice if the libgs8 dependency were
> > treated as recommends instead of a depends.  this is especially poignant
> 
> Where have you seen such a dependency?

the very last item in the dependency list:

$ apt-cache show evince | grep gs
Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.2),
libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.3-4), libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.13),
libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.10), libavahi-glib1 (>= 0.6.12), libbonobo2-0
(>= 2.13.0), libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.5.4), libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libcairo2
(>= 1.2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 0.94), libdjvulibre15 (>= 3.5.17), libesd0
(>= 0.2.35) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.35), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0),
libfreetype6 (>= 2.2), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.13.5), libgcrypt11 (>= 1.2.2),
libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.5.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgnome-keyring0
(>= 0.6.0), libgnome2-0 (>= 2.14.1), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.11.1),
libgnomeprint2.2-0 (>= 2.12.1), libgnomeprintui2.2-0 (>= 2.12.1),
libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.13.0), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.13.92), libgnutls13 (>=
1.4.0-0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.4), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libice6 (>=
1:1.0.0), libjpeg62, libkpathsea4, libnautilus-extension1 (>= 2.14.0),
liborbit2 (>= 1:2.14.1), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.8), libpng12-0 (>=
1.2.13-4), libpoppler0c2 (>= 0.4.2), libpoppler0c2-glib (>= 0.4.2),
libpopt0 (>= 1.10), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12), libtasn1-3 (>=
0.3.4), libtiff4, libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6,
libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxml2 (>= 2.6.27),
libxrandr2, libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), gconf2 (>= 2.10.1-2),
gs-esp | gs