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On 02/20/2017 03:47 PM, 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 absolutely |
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> nothing to do with network. |
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> So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware drivers, (or |
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> "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make sense. |
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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 cups and |
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> 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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Moving stuff around seems sort of like busy work. I can see the |
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reasoning and as mjeveritt mentioned in the other email a full category |
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rename may work just as well (instead of moving a couple of packages and |
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also a rename). The question to me is 'is there a great enough need to |
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go through the pain of this?'. |
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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) |