JWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > S. Keeling wrote: > > > So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files > > which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all > > Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at
I've never liked it from the first time I saw it. It's just so un-*nix like, it makes my blood boil. > >>> be going down this road? CUPS has made a mess of printer > >>> configuration. > > Agreed. We do not have a "user vote" system in Debian, but if we We do. It's called popcon. However, I suspect the results are heavily weighted in favour of the *buntu crowd. > had one, my vote would be to remove all dependencies from packages > that tend to make CUPS the default print system. I've posted about I still think we need something along the lines of "--prefers-subsystem=blah". I'm very thankful that I can still get a system that's not loaded down with Desktop Environment stuff I don't want, and instead manually haul in what I prefer. However, it's extremely difficult to keep it that way when any random "aptitude install" wants to drag in stuff I don't want, replacing what I went out of my way to get. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
