On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 06:11:21PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > reopen 533186 ! > severity 533186 serious > thanks > > Sorry, but cups depends on ghostscript-cups since it cannot work without > it.
This is not true in all cases. You only need ghostscript-cups if printing to a non-PostScript printer and you need to process the input via the pstoraster/pdftoraster filter. If you have a PostScript printer then other than pstops, the job is just send unmodified. If you are using a particular filter, then yes, a dependency is required. For this reason, the ijsgutenprint program Depends on ghostscript. Perhaps we should consider that CUPS filters (such as cups-driver-gutenprint) should depend on the needed optional filters for their correct functioning? The same applies to hplip and other CUPS filters. This would ensure that the standard dependency mechanism ensures the needed parts are installed if required. In summary, cups is not the place for the dependency, rather we should probably move to mandating driver/filter packages update their dependencies to fully specify what they need to function. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
