Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>:
>
> OK, I see, libgtk2.0-0 might be difficult to avoid on a desktop system
> and it depends on libcupsys2 in Lenny and Sid. However, the foomatic-*
> packages do not seem to depend on any CUPS packages. foomatic-filters
> and foomatic-filters-ppds both recommend cupsys, but that should only be
> a problem if you have told your package manager to install recommended
> packages automatically.
I lied (about resting my case), sorry. I do have libgtk2.0-0 and
libgtk2.0-common installed, which I don't consider a problem.
"aptitude upgrade" runs clean without trying to drag anything else
in. Fine. Small price to pay.
No, I haven't done anything to apt.conf, and this is a system
installed with Desktop Environment de-selected on install.
If I were paranoid, I'd be suspicious somebody slipped a DD a bribe. :-P
CUPS is beginning to look like the crapware that pays to get installed
on Windows machines. I can see no reason for it when lpr(ng) is quite
capable of doing the job in its place.
Honest, I'm trying not to whine :-P, and I really am grateful I've
such a great, clean system. I'd just like to keep it that way, and
the packaging system+CUPS+Gnome are not helping. Fluxbox is a
perfectly good wm, and lprng is a perfectly good spooler. Why CUPS is
continually after its ass is puzzling (not to mention infuriating).
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