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On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:07:47 +0100, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> > You stipulate physical printing. Does that mean you want to retain th |
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> > ability to print to PDF or PS? If so, you would still need at least |
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> > Ghostscript and possibly CUPS too, although you should be able to get |
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> > rid of the PPD packages. |
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> ...my "I am no native english speaker" hit me again it seems... ;) |
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> With "physical printing" I meant the step which "put it on |
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> paper"...or in other words: Everything which involves the device |
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> "printer" (...hrrmmm...NOT anything in /dev/....the thing on the |
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> desktop, which has 9 needles in the past...;) 8) ) |
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> For creating PDF I use either TeX and friends. Or gimp or |
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> similiar (Image-/Graphicsmagick). |
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I would think USE="-cups" would help, but some packages do have a hard |
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dependency on printing, which has been the subject of rants on this list |
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in the past. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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problem, I don't suffer under the illusion that I could ever fix it." - |
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