Package: tasksel
Version: 2.74.2
Severity: wishlist
The desktop task currently includes both
foomatic-db-{engine,hpijs,gutenprint} and foomatic-filters-ppds. But
is this really necessary? AFAIK, foomatic-filters-ppds already
contains PPD files for all printers, and the db-* packages are used
for generating PPDs. So why do we need to install both?
I don't think it's possible to use the db-* files directly from CUPS,
although it seems that system-config-printer supports them.
Package sizes:
foomatic-db 17.9 MB, 33.2 MB installed
(dependency of foomatic-db-*)
foomatic-db-engine 0.2 MB, 0.7 MB installed
foomatic-db-hpijs 0.2 MB, 5.2 MB installed
foomatic-db-gutenprint 2.5 MB, 48.1 MB installed
foomatic-filters-ppds 3.2 MB, 4.5 MB installed
So by removing the foomatic-db-* packages, we could save 20 MB on the
CDs and 87 MB on the installed systems. It seems that all ppd files in
foomatic-filters-ppds are compressed, while there is a lot of
uncompressed xml files in foomatic-db.
Or am I missing something obvious here?
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