On Wednesday, November 04, 2015 09:43:25 PM Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04 2015, Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> wrote: > > Okular already Recommends cups-bsd, so reopening the bug that suggests it > > be added makes no sense. > Hi, Scott. I appreciate the response, but I still think we're missing > the point. The real question is, if the bug was fixed, why am I still > suffering from it? Just saying "install cups-bsd" is not actually a > good solution to the problem. If for whatever reason the user doesn't > have cups-bsd installed, they have no way to know that the problem is > the lack of that package. In the interest of user it would be a lot > more generous to provide a notification that printing is not possible > without the cups-bsd package installed. If you don't have cups-bsd installed, it's presumably because you have installation of recommend disabled. If that's the case, then it's not at all surprising things don't work. What you're asking for is not generally how Debian packages work. Scott K
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