Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)
JWS <jstumpel@planet.nl>:
> S. Keeling wrote:
>
> > So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files
> > which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all
>
> Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at
I've never liked it from the first time I saw it. It's just so
un-*nix like, it makes my blood boil.
> >>> be going down this road? CUPS has made a mess of printer
> >>> configuration.
>
> Agreed. We do not have a "user vote" system in Debian, but if we
We do. It's called popcon. However, I suspect the results are
heavily weighted in favour of the *buntu crowd.
> had one, my vote would be to remove all dependencies from packages
> that tend to make CUPS the default print system. I've posted about
I still think we need something along the lines of
"--prefers-subsystem=blah". I'm very thankful that I can still get a
system that's not loaded down with Desktop Environment stuff I don't
want, and instead manually haul in what I prefer. However, it's
extremely difficult to keep it that way when any random "aptitude
install" wants to drag in stuff I don't want, replacing what I went
out of my way to get.
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