On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: > > If they want the full gui interface. The -gui package ensures the depends > > and menu entries are correct. > > Hm, that looks a bit weird to me, sorry. Why are the tools with the gui > dependencies not in hplip-gui (e.g. hp-systray)? Hi Michael, Some of the hplip apps can be run in either a non-gui mode (batch) [hp-sendfax -n, hp-fab -i] or a gui mode. However some of the newer apps are gui only: . hp-systray, hp-print, hp-toolbox While the bulk are CLI only: . hp-align, hp-check, hp-clean, hp-colorcal, hp-info, ... hp-systray is actually only a fairly recent addition to the package, whilst the -gui package has been around for a while. So the heritage has been towards not bringing in the -qt3 depends for the bulk of the packages, unless the -gui is specifically wanted. > I'd even go so for and argue, that this violates the policy, as you > install software without the proper dependencies. > Example: > hplip installed (but hplip-gui not) => non-functioning hp-systray. It does also seem to be causing some confusion amongst other users, so it may make better sense to include hp-systray and others in the -gui package and then things will be a little more sensible. Mark
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