> So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may > not have to actually run it, but you have to have it installed. > That's ridiculous. This is viral software.
True. Unfortunately this virus has already spread widely.. At least 144 packages which do not really need cups (because anything that prints can do so without cups) have been made dependent on it in Debian. I rest my case as well. This case is even clearer than yours, because Debian threatens to remove packages here, not install them. Is there a cure? Could some of the "higher management" in Debian explain what is going on here? vega:/home/jws# apt-get remove libcupsys2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED abiword afterstep amule amule-utils-gui aterm audacity azureus bittornado-gui choosewm digikam drgeo driconf ed2k-gtk-gui firefox flashplugin-nonfree fluxconf gamix gimp glade gnome-keyring gs-esp gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gtk-gnutella gtk-theme-switch gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtk2-engines-xfce gtkam gucharmap iceape iceape-browser iceape-mailnews icedove kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins kdelibs4c2a kdesktop leafpad libafterimage0 libafterstep1 libbonoboui2-0 libcupsimage2 libcupsys2 libcupsys2-dev libexif-gtk5 libexo-0.3-0 libgail-common libgail17 libgail18 libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby1.8 libgimp2.0 libgksuui1.0-1 libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libglademm-2.4-1c2a libglademm-2.4-dev libgladeui-1-5 libgnome-keyring-dev libgnome-keyring0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-dev libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-dev libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkmm-2.4-dev libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgtkspell0 libgucharmap6 libkdcraw-runtime libkdcraw0 libkexif1 libkexiv2-1 libkipi0 libkonq4 libmetacity0 libnautilus-burn3 libnotify1 libpoppler0c2-glib libqt3-mt-dev librsvg2-2 libscim8c2a libswt-gtk-3.1-java libswt-gtk-3.1-jni libswt-gtk-3.2-java libswt-gtk-3.2-jni libthunar-vfs-1-2 libwmf0.2-7 libwnck18 libwxgtk2.6-0 libxfcegui4-4 libxine1 libxine1-ffmpeg libxul0d mlterm mlterm-tools mousepad mozilla-mplayer mozilla-thunderbird mplayer mplayer-skin-blue obconf openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer pan python-gtk2 python-uno python-wxgtk2.6 quicktime-x11utils rapidsvn rox-filer samba scim scim-modules-socket sgt-puzzles showimg sodipodi streamtuner subtitleeditor thunar thunderbird uim uim-gtk2.0 uim-xim xaralx xcdroast xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-utils xfdesktop4 xfwm4 xine-ui xmms-xmmplayer xscreensaver xsensors The following held packages will be changed: firefox 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 147 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 650MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
