On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:31:02AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > lapse:~> dpkg -l xpr\* | grep '^[[:lower:]]' > > #[318] > > un xprint <none> (no description available) > > Weird: > > Package: firefox > Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, debianutils (>= 1.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), > libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libcairo2 (>= 1.0.2-2), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), > libfreetype6 (>= 2.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.10.0), > libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libidl0, libjpeg62, libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.12.1), > libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.0), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> > 1.1.2), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, > libxp6, libxrandr2, libxrender1, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) > Suggests: firefox-gnome-support (= 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1), latex-xft-fonts, > xprint > Conflicts: mozilla-firefox (<< 1.5.dfsg-1) > > I believe it used to Depend on xprint, not it only suggests it. >
xprint used to (up to at least a few months ago) cause "extra" printers to show up in the print dialog in FIrefox. IIRC, these extra printer didn't actually work properly, but were forced to be the default. One had to manually select your cups printers to get decent output. At some point many of us figured out that you could just remove xprint to get rid of the extra printers and get the firefox printing to behave as expected. Perhaps, as a work-around this fairly broken behavior, the just downgraded it from depends to suggests? I suppose I could read the changelogs... A
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