Evince browser plugin

[Michael Catanzaro]

Hi,

I noticed the Evince browser plugin is not installed by default. It was 
split into a subpackage to accommodate organizations that are concerned 
about the security implications of displaying PDFs in the web browser, 
and nothing installs the subpackage. This plugin is very good, and I 
want it to be installed by default for all Epiphany users who have 
Evince installed, as intended by upstream. (For Firefox users, it 
doesn't matter because Firefox will use its own built-in PDF viewer in 
preference to the plugin, Firefox makes it click-to-run which sucks, 
and Firefox hangs when it dlopens a GTK+ 3 plugin anyway.)

The correct solution in most distros would be for the evince package to 
have a Recommends for the evince-browser-plugin package, so that users 
get it by default but sysadmins can decide not to install it if need 
be. But we can't use Recommends yet. :S

So there are a few options I can think of:

* Add a Requires from evince to evince-browser-plugin, to be changed 
into a Recommends once we're allowed to use those. This will sadden 
those who do not want the browser plugin, but it's the most "correct" 
approach.
* Add a Requires from epiphany-runtime to evince-browser-plugin. That 
would make Epiphany depend on Evince, and we don't want apps to depend 
on other apps, so this is my least favorite option. But it is 
preferable to users having to discover and install the plugin 
themselves. (It's a good plugin. :)
* Add evince-browser-plugin to the Fedora Workstation group in comps. 
This is yucky since it only benefits Epiphany users, and Epiphany is 
not installed by default. But I think it's preferable to a Requires 
from Epiphany to Evince.

Any preferences or other suggestions? (If anyone can think of an option 
that's actually good, that would be dandy.)

Michael
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