Florent Peterschmitt wrote:
Le 21/10/2014 18:46, Peter Nieman a écrit :On 21/10/14 17:53, Doug wrote:What do you suggest instead of cups? Or do you not print?I'm using good old lpr with a self-made GUI. I consider cups an obese replacement of something I never had a problem with. But even though I don't have cups, I can't get rid of libcups2. If I try to remove it, aptitude wants to remove 32 other packages. Crazy, isn't it? p.That's the "problem" of packages. If other users want to use CUPS with their softwares, *shared* libraries are needed. I mostly read this list, and I see most of people who should use Gentoo or Slackware rather than Debian…
For over a decade, Debian was a great choice of distro - particularly for servers. Install packages for a base system, install from upstream source for specialty items, maybe tweak configurations and init scripts a bit to address unique requirements. There's a reason that a lot of new stuff is released/packaged for Debian first (I'm thinking of a lot of virtualization and cluster software, in particular).
systemd changes all of that - for pretty much all major distros except slackware and gentoo -- and given that these are largely source-based distros, the real choice is to go all the way to LFS and bite the bullet of managing dependencies manually, and waiting for compiles
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