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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's with foomatic-filters and cups-filters?
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 21:08:07
Message-Id: 20140608210338.GB4020@acm.acm
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What's with foomatic-filters and cups-filters? by Neil Bothwick
1 Hi, Neil.
2
3 On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 05:11:20PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 > On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 15:48:09 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
5
6 > > (net-print/cups-filters-1.0.53::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
7 > > merge) pulled in by net-print/cups-filters:0 required by
8 > > @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__
9 > > >=net-print/cups-filters-1.0.43-r1[foomatic] required by
10 > > >(net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds-20070501::gentoo, installed)
11 > > >=net-print/cups-filters-1.0.30 required by
12 > > >(net-print/cups-1.6.4::gentoo, installed)
13 > > net-print/cups-filters required by
14 > > (net-print/foomatic-filters-4.0.17-r1::gentoo, installed)
15
16 > Does the emerge output somewhere include an update to cups? If the
17 > installed and new versions have different dependencies you may see this.
18
19 Yes, I think it did.
20
21 > Remove cups-filters and foomatic-filters, update cups and then run the
22 > world update.
23
24 Well, the first bit of that went well indeed. Updating cups pulled in
25 cups-filters but not foomatic-filters. Printing now seems to work
26 without the latter.
27
28 As for a world update, I'm still summoning up the courage. I might let
29 that run overnight, after doing a backup.
30
31 Thanks for the help!
32
33 > --
34 > Neil Bothwick
35
36 --
37 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).