-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 19/01/13 05:33 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> > wrote: >> I'm not sure whether we need to keep cups at all. I haven't >> printed anything from my personal PC or laptop in years. And I'm >> sure I'm not the only one. > > The suggestion that few people actually print anything ever really > seems "out of touch" to me, but it could easily be > cultural/generational/etc, and maybe I'm the one who is out of > touch.
I'll add to this bikeshed.. I'll agree (as i believe most will) that the days are going where everyone has a printer linked to their computer. However, I also hold the opinion that many (if not the majority) have access to a printer when necessary, either via their network or (in the case of laptops) via accessing a colleague's network. We could certainly disable/remove cups from the default profiles, and thus drop printing support -- but do we really want to put users into a situation that they will have to rebuild a bunch of stuff for those cases when the -do- want to print something? I think opt-out on this one is still a better option; if you *know* the install will never need to print (or act as a print server), USE="-cups" is easy enough to set. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlD68kMACgkQ2ugaI38ACPDaqAEAn89GvjNHOs8khpbu7wyKiuyv oYRBXZjhdi2Z0WNhk1cBALaT8gwMuTTJStuEHbcHZnxztgKoxczf6RNXhq4W09ZN =J2tZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
