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Bug#485000: remove foomatic-* packages from desktop task?



Per Olofsson wrote:
> 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?

If that is these case, the foomatic-db-* package descriptions are
*horrible*. 

> I don't think it's possible to use the db-* files directly from CUPS,
> although it seems that system-config-printer supports them.

How does it use them?

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