On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:43:21AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 19 May 2014 at 13:04:51 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:30:45AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > And can you explain why hplip depends on systemd ? > > > > One reason IMO - PolicyKit. > > > > The better question is - why hplip (which is also used on print servers > > which have to X installed) is depending on PolicyKit (which is > > desktop-only gizmo). > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578808 > > An explanation: > > Thanks for your report. However there are graphical console depends, they > are > against the hplip-gui package. These depends are actually the minimum set > for > hplip. > > A solution: > > If you wish to run a headless print server, we now ship the independent > packages of hpijs and hplip-cups, which do not require the full hplip > depends.
Thanks, but this is outdated. hplip-cups is a transitional package to the printer-driver-hpcups as of wheezy. printer-driver-hpcups lacks essential backend executable /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp, which prevents cups from using hp:/ URIs. Such backend is included into hplip package. And you need those hp:/ URIs if you want to talk to the HP printer via ethernet, which is the only sane way to configure printers IMO. Therefore - to setup the printserver one has to install full-blown hplip with all bells, whistles, QT and PolicyKit. Talk about bloat. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140519115349.GB7843@x101h
