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Hi, |
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On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:47:17 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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>Hey all, |
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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 |
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>absolutely nothing to do with network. |
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>So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware |
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>drivers, (or "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make sense. |
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Like I said in IRC, I'm all in favor of this. "media-print" seems |
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reasonable as I don't consider printing related packages being |
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system-relevant (and thus no sys-print). |
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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 |
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>cups and lprng. Maybe one or two more which I dont recognize. |
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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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>Cheers, |
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>Andreas |
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Cheers |
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Lars |
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