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

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:53:40PM +0000, "s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca> was heard to say:
> Larry Irwin <larryi@ccamedical.com>:
> >  So! If you want lprng... - after a fresh install of linux:
> >  1) Stop the cups processes:
> >  for i in /etc/init.d/cups*; do; $i stop; done
> >  2) Edit the init scripts for cups and add the line "exit 0" at the top of 
> >  each one, effectively disabling cups.
> >   vi /etc/init.d/cups*
> >  3) install lprng
> >  4) install your home-grown lprng management tools.
> 
> So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible.  You may not have
> to actually run it, but you have to have it installed.  That's
> ridiculous.  This is viral software.

  There are four packages that depend on the cups server:

    bluez-cups
    cupsys-driver-gutenprint
    hplip
    printconf

  None of these are essential to the system, or even to the GUI.

  Daniel