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

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

On 06/15/07 11:20, s. keeling wrote:
> John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>:
> >  s. keeling wrote:
> > > (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
> > > ...
> > > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
> > >   lprng
> >  toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui
> >  Reading package lists... Done
> >  Building dependency tree... Done
> >  The following extra packages will be installed:
> >    foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters python-foomatic python-glade2 python-gobject python-gtk2
> >    python-ipy
>
> Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
> understand why it works so well if it's broken.  At least apt-get
> doesn't try to blow away lprng:
>
>    -------------------------------------
>  (100) heretic [root] /root_ apt-get -s install foomatic-gui
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   cpp cpp-4.1 esound-common gconf2 gconf2-common gksu gnome-keyring gnome-media-common
>   gnome-mime-data libart-2.0-2 libaspell15 libaudiofile0 libavahi-client3
>   libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common
[snip]

foomatic-gui is a very high-level python GNOME app.  You don't have 
any GNOME libraries installed, so no wonder you've got to pulling in 
the world.

BTW, did you watch /Red Green/ last night?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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