FS#2130 - cups, ghostscript and large dependencies

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 03 February 2005, 09:23 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To dorphell (dorphell)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I've heard some complaints about the new ghostscript dependency for cups that is required for most printerdrivers. This causes people using samba on their server to get a full X server on their headless server.

cups will work for true postscript printers without ghostscript, because these printers do the processing themselves.

I think it's best to remove ghostscript from the dependencies again and add them as dependency on the driver packages that require ghostscript to function correctly (hpijs for example). We could make a notice of this in the postinstall, because it's hard to find out why cups isn't printing.
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Closed by  dorphell (dorphell)
Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 18:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  removed ghostscript from cups dep()
Comment by Jud (judfilm) - Saturday, 05 February 2005, 01:11 GMT
I'd like to second this.
Comment by dorphell (dorphell) - Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 18:02 GMT
you're the one who asked for it in cups in the first place, JGC ;-)

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