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>>>>> On Fri, 17 Dec 2021, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: |
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> On Montag, 20. Februar 2017 22:47:17 CET Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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>> 1) Putting printer drivers into "net-print" is silly. |
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>> Something that converts format a to device-specific format b has absolutely |
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>> nothing to do with network. |
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>> So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware drivers, (or |
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>> "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make sense. |
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>> 2) After introducing that, however, "net-print" becomes nearly empty. |
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>> On a quick glance, the only *network*-specific packages in there are cups |
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>> and lprng. Maybe one or two more which I dont recognize. |
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Historically these were the first two packages in the net-print |
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category. Looks like it has grown from there, with later packages not |
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really fitting the category's definition. |
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>> So move cups and lprng to "net-misc" and drop "net-print"? |
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>> Or move them to new "sys-print" as well? |
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>> What do you think? |
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> I would like to resume this discussion on the occasion of a new [shameless |
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> plug] package PAPPL that is to be packaged, see also [1], from the point |
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> before discussion went off on an X-Y categories tangent. |
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> Here's a list of suggestions made for a new category so far, ordered from |
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> (seemingly) best- to least-liked: |
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> media-print |
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> sys-print |
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> app-print(ing) |
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media-print sounds good. media-gfx would be another possibility. |
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Scanning software like sane is already there. |
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Or we could find an umbrella term for printing and scanning, and move |
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both to that category. |
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> I agree net-print should not remain after such a move. |
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+1 |
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> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/829351 |
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