Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 06/14/07 16:19, s. keeling wrote:
> Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>:
> >  On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +0000, s. keeling wrote:
> > > Damned near
> > > everything drags in CUPS.  I already had lprng installed, and
> > > foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS.  Should I just
> >  Is it really that bad as far as CUPS is concerned? I have stable,
>
>   ---------------------------------------
> (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude show foomatic-gui
> Package: foomatic-gui
> State: not installed
> Version: 0.7.7
> Priority: optional
> Section: gnome
> Maintainer: Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>
> Uncompressed Size: 258k
> Depends: python, python-foomatic (>= 0.7.7), python-gtk2 (> 2.6), python-gnome2,
>          python-glade2, gksu, python-gnome2-extras
> Recommends: netcat, pconf-detect, nmap, smbclient
> ...
>   ---------------------------------------
>
> Note, I have python-foomatic installed.  I don't see cupsys in there
> anywhere.
>
>   ---------------------------------------
> (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
> ...
> The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
>   lprng
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   aspell aspell-en binutils cpp cpp-4.1 cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-common
>   esound-clients esound-common fam foomatic-gui gcc gcc-4.1 gconf2 gconf2-common gksu
[snip]
>   pkg-config poppler-utils python-cairo python-glade2 python-gnome2
>   python-gnome2-desktop python-gnome2-extras python-gtk2 python-numeric
>   python-pyorbit samba-common sgml-base shared-mime-info smbclient sudo tdb-dev
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   lprng
> 0 packages upgraded, 145 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 17.7MB/57.0MB of archives. After unpacking 201MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
>   ---------------------------------------
>
> I rest my case.

User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian)

No wonder it wanted to pull in 145 packages: you're a text mode 
octogenarian!  You're probably also running NetBSD on a VAX 11/785.

Those of us not pining away for a VT101 on our desks already have 
the needed dependencies installed.

--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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