Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

[Aaron W. Swenson]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:53:25PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
> > I'm not sure whether we need to keep cups at all.
> > I haven't printed anything from my personal PC or laptop in years.
>
> As a user, I'ld say this wb a very unpopular move with some of us.
> I rarely use my 2nd-hand 1995 printer, but sometimes it is essential :
> eg I now need to print letters to  2  friends abroad who don't have e-mail
> & occasionally I need to print forms downloaded from the Internet
> for tax purposes or to get mail-in refunds on things I bought.
> I don't have access to an office printer
> & when last asked, my neighbour reported his printer "broken".
>
> Please continue to support Cups.
>

We're only discussing whether or not to have the `cups' USE flag in
the base profile, not the package itself.

I don't believe we need it in the base profile. The only people who
would enable it are those that are setting up a print server or those
who are setting up a desktop, in which case they would want to use the
desktop profile.

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