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From: "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 01:06:06
Message-Id: 61ce2aa6-9e61-8323-9e52-de7a50ade493@iee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print by Lars Wendler
1 On 21/02/17 08:53, Lars Wendler wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:47:17 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
5 >
6 >> Hey all,
7 >>
8 >> 1) Putting printer drivers into "net-print" is silly.
9 >>
10 >> Something that converts format a to device-specific format b has
11 >> absolutely nothing to do with network.
12 >> So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware
13 >> drivers, (or "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make sense.
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 >
19 Maybe we can shoot for "app-print" .. its not really a system package
20 any more than a networking one, nor a (multi-)media package per-se (cue
21 bikeshed on what 'media' means) .. so perhaps just 'app-print' or
22 'app-printing' .. I dunno ..
23
24 Just my 2c50 as usual ..
25
26 MJE

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