Manuel Bilderbeek <manuel@msxnet.org> writes:
> Roger Leigh wrote:
>> You can change it by setting
>> Browsing off
>> in /etc/cups/cups.d/browse.conf (or dpkg-reconfigure cupsys).
>>
>> This isn't a bug in CUPS--it's the way it has been configured to
>> behave.
>
> Is this new then? I didn't see it before.
No. CUPS 1.1.x also did browsing, though it may have defaulted to
being off.
It's pretty magical--if you ever plug your system into a network with
other CUPS systems, they all pick up each others printers so you can
transparently use them all with zero additional configuration.
> Anyway, it would be nice if
> I would have got a debconf question about this, as it's just uselessly
> filling logs on stand alone systems :)
> OTOH: dpkg-reconfigure does give me the question, so maybe I just missed it.
It might have been at a lower priority than your debconf frontend (it
has low priority), so it may not have shown it during the upgrade.
Enabling it is generally harmless, so it's not a bad default. If it's
a problem, the priority could be raised:
db_input low cupsys/browse || true
(see /var/lib/dpkg/info/cupsys.config)
Regards,
Roger
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