On Montag, 20. Februar 2017 22:47:17 CET 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
I would like to resume this discussion on the occasion of a new [shameless plug] package PAPPL that is to be packaged, see also [1], from the point before discussion went off on an X-Y categories tangent. Here's a list of suggestions made for a new category so far, ordered from (seemingly) best- to least-liked: media-print sys-print app-print(ing) I agree net-print should not remain after such a move. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/829351
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