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From: Gordon Pettey <petteyg359@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 02:48:49
Message-Id: CAHY5MefXQfwfZrv1rhymckmkK9eoncZ--Acu=7QjVoiunxr+VA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print by "M. J. Everitt"
1 On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:05 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote:
2
3 > On 21/02/17 08:53, Lars Wendler wrote:
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
25 There is no requirement for category names to be x-y. Instead of forcing a
26 prefix-suffix pattern that doesn't really fit, just call it "printing".

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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 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>