On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +0000, s. keeling wrote: [...]
> Damned near > everything drags in CUPS. I already had lprng installed, and > foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS. Should I just > complain to linuxprinting.org that they're flat out lying when they > say I can use pretty much any spooler? That's not true, but Debian's > packaging system appears to think it is. > > Why is it that when I do a non-DE install, then install fluxbox, it > doesn't drag in xserver-xorg? Can fluxbox be used without X? Why the > double standard? I think the idea in this specific case is to allow for setups in which the X server runs on a different computer. > Why does CUPS (and Gnome, and KDE ...) get such close dependency ties > when others, which really are close dependencies, don't? Is it really that bad as far as CUPS is concerned? I have stable, testing, unstable and experimental in my sources.list. These are the packages which depend on cupsys AND do NOT specify an alternative dependency on lprng AND do NOT have "cups" in their name OR their package description: $ aptitude -F '%p' search '~Dcupsys!~D^lprng$!(~ncups|~dcups)' gnustep-gui-runtime katoob kdelibs4-dev kdelibs4c2a libfox-1.6-0 libfox-1.6-dev libfox1.4 libfox1.4-dev libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgtk2.0-0 libqt3-mt-dev netatalk rezound samba scribus scribus-ng swat xfprint4 OK, I see, libgtk2.0-0 might be difficult to avoid on a desktop system and it depends on libcupsys2 in Lenny and Sid. However, the foomatic-* packages do not seem to depend on any CUPS packages. foomatic-filters and foomatic-filters-ppds both recommend cupsys, but that should only be a problem if you have told your package manager to install recommended packages automatically. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
