Hi, Alex.

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:12:08AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie writes:

> > > Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now,
> > > so the cups USE flag has been removed.

> > What???  I run lprng on my machine, not cups.  Does that mean that
> > libreoffice will be broken the next time I update?  Please tell me
> > I've misunderstood what you've just said.

> I don't know much about this, I just did a
> diff 
> /var/db/pkg/app-office/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1.ebuild 
> /usr/portage/app-office/libreoffice/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1.ebuild.
> The IUSE line no longer has cups, the dependency of net-print/cups is
> mandatory, and --enable-cups is always given as configure option. Yes,
> this means you will need cups. I don't know if you somehow could still
> print when it is not configured.

I've had a google about this thing.  gentoo-user seems about the only
place this issue is discussed.  Is this imposition of cups being done by
LibreOffice or by our own Gentoo Projektbetreuer?

BTW, does anybody know a good office suite that runs on standard
GNU/LINUX infrastructural assumptions?

>       Wonko

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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