Bug#397440: Fwd: Accepted hplip 2.7.10-2 (source i386 all)
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb:
>> The PPDs are not guaranteed to be the same.
>
> I didn't mean that. I meant that most users have only one printer which is
> either postscript-capable or not. In a previous mail you explained to me
> that Postscript-PPDs are in linuxprinting.org-ppds and non-Postscript-PPDs
> are in hpijs-ppds. Having *both* packages installed will be unnecessary for
> many users, since most of the own only *one* printer.
True. OTOH, in face of the whole hoopla about "plug and play" printer setup,
I don't know if it makes sense to mess with it. Since it is just a
recommendation, you are already free to refuse to install either one, in
fact, you can refuse to install both if you don't need PPDs at all (for some
very weird reason).
That said, I agree that technically recommending one OR the other is good
enough, it satisfies what is required to run the package (and thus the
reason for a recommends instead of a suggests), and I am not heavily against
it.
Mark?
--
"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
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