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[Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think it makes much sense for us (packaging guys for
Debian/Ubuntu) to remove inkview from the main package.

Instead I wonder whether inkscape could grow a libinkscape shared
library so that much of the common things shared between inkscape and
inkview don't get duplicated.

I'm therefore considering this bug an "upstream" bug (and tagging it as
so in the Debian ticket).

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Title:
  Inkscape package contains very large (8MB) inkview binary file -
  please package it separately

Status in Inkscape:
  Triaged
Status in inkscape package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in inkscape package in Baltix:
  New
Status in inkscape package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: inkscape

  The inkscape and inkview binaries are the largest on my Ubuntu 8.04
  system:

  $ ls -lk /usr/bin | sort -rn -k5 | head -n5
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root    8042 2008-04-07 21:42 inkscape
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root    8030 2008-04-07 21:42 inkview
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root    3685 2008-06-13 01:22 Xephyr
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root    3659 2008-03-08 04:45 gimp-2.4
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root    2861 2008-05-26 11:11 gdbtui

  Very large (8MB) inkview executable isn't needed for Inkscape - please
  package it separately or  use one of the following ways:

  I suspect that the inkscape and inkview binaries are > 90% identical.
  Would it be possible to eliminate one of them, and thereby save 8MB?
  Possible methods:

  - Two links to the same executable which checks argv[0].
  - An executable for inkscape and a script for inkview which calls inkscape with a view-only flag.
  - Two small executables and a shared library.

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