On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:08:35PM +0200, JWS wrote: > S. Keeling wrote: > > > So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files > > which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all > > gzipped ... > > Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at > all (being a happy lprng user) but I had no idea it was *this* > bad. Surely at least the package maintainer should have realised > that something absurd was going on? > > >>> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > >>> ... > >>> Considering all the confusion and myriad pleas from people > >>> trying to get CUPS working on their systems, should we really > >>> be going down this road? CUPS has made a mess of printer > >>> configuration. > > Agreed. We do not have a "user vote" system in Debian, but if we > had one, my vote would be to remove all dependencies from packages > that tend to make CUPS the default print system. I've posted about > this before.. you can use popcon so that at least you can "vote" for others besides CUPS. And i suppose you could file wishlist bugs against packages that unnecessarily depend on CUPS. They could change the dependencies so that (and it may already exist) any one of cups, lprng etc. "provides" "printing system" . .02 A
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature