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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:47:45
Message-Id: 2225532.dXl5vgaOU9@pinacolada
1 Hey all,
2
3 1) Putting printer drivers into "net-print" is silly.
4
5 Something that converts format a to device-specific format b has absolutely
6 nothing to do with network.
7 So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware drivers, (or
8 "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make sense.
9
10 2) After introducing that, however, "net-print" becomes nearly empty.
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12 On a quick glance, the only *network*-specific packages in there are cups and
13 lprng. Maybe one or two more which I dont recognize.
14
15 So move cups and lprng to "net-misc" and drop "net-print"?
16 Or move them to new "sys-print" as well?
17
18 What do you think?
19
20 Cheers,
21 Andreas
22
23 --
24 Andreas K. Hüttel
25 dilfridge@g.o
26 Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o>