On 02/20/2017 03:47 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Hey all, > > 1) Putting printer drivers into "net-print" is silly. > > Something that converts format a to device-specific format b has absolutely > nothing to do with network. > So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware drivers, (or > "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make sense. > > 2) After introducing that, however, "net-print" becomes nearly empty. > > On a quick glance, the only *network*-specific packages in there are cups and > lprng. Maybe one or two more which I dont recognize. > > So move cups and lprng to "net-misc" and drop "net-print"? > Or move them to new "sys-print" as well? > > What do you think? > > Cheers, > Andreas >
Moving stuff around seems sort of like busy work. I can see the reasoning and as mjeveritt mentioned in the other email a full category rename may work just as well (instead of moving a couple of packages and also a rename). The question to me is 'is there a great enough need to go through the pain of this?'. -- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
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