Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

[Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:43:21AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 19 May 2014 at 13:04:51 +0400, Reco wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:30:45AM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> > > And can you explain why hplip depends on systemd ?
> > 
> > One reason IMO - PolicyKit.
> > 
> > The better question is - why hplip (which is also used on print servers
> > which have to X installed) is depending on PolicyKit (which is
> > desktop-only gizmo).
> 
>    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578808
> 
> An explanation:
> 
>   Thanks for your report.  However there are graphical console depends, they are 
>   against the hplip-gui package.  These depends are actually the minimum set for 
>   hplip.
> 
> A solution:
> 
>   If you wish to run a headless print server, we now ship the independent 
>   packages of hpijs and hplip-cups, which do not require the full hplip depends.

Thanks, but this is outdated.

hplip-cups is a transitional package to the printer-driver-hpcups as of
wheezy.

printer-driver-hpcups lacks essential backend executable
/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp, which prevents cups from using hp:/ URIs.
Such backend is included into hplip package.

And you need those hp:/ URIs if you want to talk to the HP printer via
ethernet, which is the only sane way to configure printers IMO.

Therefore - to setup the printserver one has to install full-blown hplip
with all bells, whistles, QT and PolicyKit. Talk about bloat.

Reco