On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 19:23 -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > AFAICT libgnomeprint only recommends cupsys and you should have no > > problem not installing it or removing it? CUPS is the best option for > > most users and a sensible default. > > My question is, why doesn't it recommend "cupsys | approved_spooler" > or something? Perhaps CUPS is the best default to accomodate most > users, but what about the rest of us who do have a preference, and want > instead to use lpr(ng), et al? linuxprinting.org says we should have > no trouble that way. apt* thinks otherwise.
This sounds like a reasonable request. > Try it yourself sometime. Do a basic install de-selecting "Desktop > Environment", install lpr(ng), then see what happens when you try to > get printing working. Damned near everything you do tries to clobber > lpr(ng) with CUPS. Removing CUPS then tries to blow away far too many > things it's related to. Begging your pardon, but this is "viral" > behaviour, which I'd prefer to just not even begin to have to deal > with. The farther CUPS (and its dependencies & etc) are from my > system, the happier I'll be. My /etc/printcap: aptitude doesn't seem to show any problems if I try to remove cupsys from my system. It does complain about a few missing recommends, but that's far from "viral behaviour". If you don't want aptitude (or any other package manager) to satisfy recommends, use the -R switch (or change the configuration). -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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