[gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-09-06, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:

> Nobody is forcing you to anything: but upstream projects (like
> LibreOffice) need to fulfill the needs of all their users... not only
> you. Don't force *them* to support every single printing system in the
> planet earth;

I wasn't complaining about lack of support for other printing systems.
I was complaining about the lack of support for _no_ printing system.
It seems dumb to make somebody without a printer install CUPs seems.

> Because the Open Source community has limited resources. The
> LibreOffice devs (or maybe the Gentoo ones) choose to support CUPS and
> only CUPS, because it takes care of the most cases, not only yours.

What about the lack of a CUPS install would make LibreOffice fail?
Does LibreOffice depend on libraries provided by CUPS even if you
don't want to print?

As for cups being "huge", the standard install comprises over 500
files. That's still huge in my book.

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