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

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

> 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.

True. Unfortunately this virus has already spread widely.. At
least 144 packages which do not really need cups (because anything
that prints can do so without cups) have been made dependent on it
in Debian. I rest my case as well. This case is even clearer than
yours, because Debian threatens to remove packages here, not
install them. Is there a cure? Could some of the "higher
management" in Debian explain what is going on here?

vega:/home/jws# apt-get remove libcupsys2

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  abiword afterstep amule amule-utils-gui aterm audacity azureus
  bittornado-gui choosewm digikam drgeo driconf ed2k-gtk-gui
  firefox flashplugin-nonfree fluxconf gamix gimp glade
  gnome-keyring gs-esp gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gtk-gnutella
  gtk-theme-switch gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf
  gtk2-engines-xfce gtkam gucharmap iceape iceape-browser
  iceape-mailnews icedove kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins
  kdelibs4c2a kdesktop leafpad libafterimage0 libafterstep1
  libbonoboui2-0 libcupsimage2 libcupsys2 libcupsys2-dev
  libexif-gtk5 libexo-0.3-0 libgail-common libgail17 libgail18
  libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby1.8 libgimp2.0
  libgksuui1.0-1 libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libglademm-2.4-1c2a
  libglademm-2.4-dev libgladeui-1-5 libgnome-keyring-dev
  libgnome-keyring0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-dev
  libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0
  libgnomeui-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-dev
  libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkmm-2.4-dev libgtksourceview1.0-0
  libgtkspell0 libgucharmap6 libkdcraw-runtime libkdcraw0
  libkexif1 libkexiv2-1 libkipi0 libkonq4 libmetacity0
  libnautilus-burn3 libnotify1 libpoppler0c2-glib
  libqt3-mt-dev librsvg2-2 libscim8c2a libswt-gtk-3.1-java
  libswt-gtk-3.1-jni libswt-gtk-3.2-java libswt-gtk-3.2-jni
  libthunar-vfs-1-2 libwmf0.2-7 libwnck18 libwxgtk2.6-0
  libxfcegui4-4 libxine1 libxine1-ffmpeg libxul0d mlterm
  mlterm-tools mousepad mozilla-mplayer mozilla-thunderbird
  mplayer mplayer-skin-blue obconf openoffice.org-calc
  openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw
  openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-impress
  openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer pan python-gtk2
  python-uno python-wxgtk2.6 quicktime-x11utils rapidsvn rox-filer
  samba scim scim-modules-socket sgt-puzzles showimg sodipodi
  streamtuner subtitleeditor thunar thunderbird uim uim-gtk2.0
  uim-xim xaralx xcdroast xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-netload-plugin
  xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-utils xfdesktop4 xfwm4
  xine-ui xmms-xmmplayer xscreensaver xsensors
The following held packages will be changed:
  firefox
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Regards, Jan