Bug#373916: hplip: Please remove dependency on python-qt3
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> hplip depends on python-qt3, which depends in turn on many packages not
> normally found on a bare file and print server. Assuming the upstream
> codebase allows it, could you provide an 'hplip-nogui' package?
Maybe. Such changes are more invasive than what is adiviseable due to the
way HPLIP is written, and new upstream releases are prone to breaking them.
Also, since qt is far more than just an UI toolkit (and python doesn't
separate it into UI and non-UI modules...), it may be wasted effort sooner
or later.
This is not a "no". Ubuntu does such a split, and I may do it later, but it
will not happen at least until HPLIP 1.x is good enough to migrate to Etch.
The truth is that HPLIP needs some work to be really headless-print-server-
friendly (i.e. it needs to become network-transparent), and I'd rather waste
effort on that if I am to dedicate time to such issues.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
Reply to: