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Alan Mackenzie writes: |
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> Hi, Alex. |
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> > Graham Murray wonders: |
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> > > Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? |
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> > > Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD |
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> > > world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use |
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> > > flag change, then the next day a new version was put in the tree, |
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> > > then there was an -r1 release and today there is yet another use |
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> > > flag change. |
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> > Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now, so |
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> > the cups USE flag has been removed. |
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> What??? I run lprng on my machine, not cups. Does that mean that |
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> libreoffice will be broken the next time I update? Please tell me I've |
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> misunderstood what you've just said. |
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I don't know much about this, I just did a |
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diff /var/db/pkg/app-office/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1.ebuild /usr/portage/app-office/libreoffice/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1.ebuild. |
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The IUSE line no longer has cups, the dependency of net-print/cups is |
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mandatory, and --enable-cups is always given as configure option. Yes, |
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this means you will need cups. I don't know if you somehow could |
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still print when it is not configured. |
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> Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, |
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> its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration. Surely |
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> I'm not going to be faced by the choice of abandoning libreoffice or |
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> using cups? |
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Printing is one thing that just seems to work much better on Windows. This |
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is becoming better, it looks like the LibreOffice and Firefox print |
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dialogs allow to set print features like the resolution. But other |
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applications, like Konqueror, do not have this option, so I have multiple |
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printers configured in order to select the resolution. BTW, how is |
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your situation with lprng now, can you change the resolution in Firefox' |
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print dialog? |
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I never liked CUPS, but then, at least there is some interface |
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to configure its options. I don't do much printing anyway, so I can live |
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with that. Well, seems I have to. |
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Wonko |
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