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From: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o>
To: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:53:56
Message-Id: 20170221095336.7e31d535@abudhabi.paradoxon.rec
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 Hi,
2
3 On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:47:17 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
4
5 >Hey all,
6 >
7 >1) Putting printer drivers into "net-print" is silly.
8 >
9 >Something that converts format a to device-specific format b has
10 >absolutely nothing to do with network.
11 >So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware
12 >drivers, (or "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make sense.
13
14 Like I said in IRC, I'm all in favor of this. "media-print" seems
15 reasonable as I don't consider printing related packages being
16 system-relevant (and thus no sys-print).
17
18 >2) After introducing that, however, "net-print" becomes nearly empty.
19 >
20 >On a quick glance, the only *network*-specific packages in there are
21 >cups and lprng. Maybe one or two more which I dont recognize.
22 >
23 >So move cups and lprng to "net-misc" and drop "net-print"?
24 >Or move them to new "sys-print" as well?
25 >
26 >What do you think?
27 >
28 >Cheers,
29 >Andreas
30 >
31
32 Cheers
33 Lars
34
35 --
36 Lars Wendler
37 Gentoo package maintainer
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39
40 Attention! New gpg key! See
41 https://www.gentoofan.org/blog/index.php?/archives/9-New-gpg-keys.html

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>