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Date:      Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:18:50 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 204696] graphics/xpdf: pdfinfo and friends not in exec path.
Message-ID:  <bug-204696-13@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204696

            Bug ID: 204696
           Summary: graphics/xpdf: pdfinfo and friends not in exec path.
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: cy@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: graudeejs@inbox.lv
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(cy@FreeBSD.org)
          Assignee: cy@FreeBSD.org

There are couple of very useful utilities that comes with xpdf such as
* pdfinfo
* pdftohtml
* pdftopng
etc

However these are installed in /usr/local/libexec/xpdf/ thus are not executable
by default, because they are not in any of standard execution paths.

In fact /usr/local/bin/xpdf is link to /usr/local/libexec/xpdf/xpdf.

Manuals for these utilities are available (i.e. man pdfinfo).
I think this is quite confusing.
I really needed pdfinfo but couldn't find it until I looked at xpdf ports
pkg-plist.

Why don't these utils deserve link in /usr/local/bin/ ?

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