On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:39:46AM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:51:00PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > s. keeling wrote: > > > (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui > > > ... > > > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > > > lprng > > > > toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui > > Thank you. At least someone figured out that there was a reason why one > might want to try apt-get instead. Aptitude, imo, tries too hard to err > on the side of the completely clueless user.
Could some of that problem be having aptitude treat recommends as required? I only have a 26 year old dot-matrix printer; I use plain-old lpr. On the box that still has a paralell port, I have a pretty full text-mode environment plus minimal X (not all of xorg) and icewm. On that box, aptitude search '~i~dcups' shows nothing. On my main box, I currently have no print spooler. However, there is a driver in the gs-esp package that will print postscript on my dot-matrix printer. That gs does require libcupsys2 and libcupsimage2; between the two that's 565k uncompressed size. Nothing else that I have installed requires anything related to cups. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
