On Thu 02 Jan 2014 at 15:29:43 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:50:25AM +0100, Benoît wrote: > > Package: cups > > Version: 1.6.4-2 > > Severity: minor > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > I am running cups on my laptop which has no parallel port at all. > > However, the /etc/init.d/cups script always loads lp, ppdev and parport_pc. > > > > Would there be a way to cleanly prevent these modules to be loaded ? > > It's not possible to autodetect if a printer is attached to the > parallel port without this step. This is generally harmless, so > it's hard to argue against this behaviour being the default, but > it's certainly true that parallel port use is a rarity for many > people nowadays. > > I would suggest blacklisting them in /etc/modprobe.d: > > cat <<EOF > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-lp > blacklist lp > blacklist ppdev > blacklist parport_pc > > and see if this helps. If not, I would suggest just commenting out > the loading in /etc/init.d/cups.
May I suggest that there is no bug at all here and setting LOAD_LP_MODULE=no is the intended way to achieve what Benoît wants to do. Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
