On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:07, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> Package: cupsys-client
> Version: 1.1.23-4
> Severity: normal
>
> A user with limited or none experience of cups, the weak dependency on
> cupsys is confusing. If I have understood cups correctly,
> cupsys-client needs a server installed locally, either cupsys or
No. Just set in /etc/cups/client.conf ServerName to whereever you
cups server is (or set env var CUPS_SERVER).
> lpr(ng), but the neither the package description nor the formal
> dependecies of cupsys-client reflect this. Cupsys-client has a stronger
> dependency on cupsys-bsd (recommends) than on cupsys (suggests), I
> think this is wrong. Citing the "Debian policy manual":
>
> "Recommends
> This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
>
> The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
> with this one in all but unusual installations."
>
> cupsys-client thus should recommend cupsys.
So is 'usual' the single host without net (here the dependency is more a
depends)
or a network (here dependency is more a suggests). I would say the later.
>
> Another approach that I personally would find even better would be to
> merge the packages cupsys & cupsys-client into one, since the
Noooooooo ;) I've one cupsys (server) installed and dozends hosts with
only cupsys-{client,bsd}.
Hope the info helps, and feel free to close the bug ;)
Achim
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