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On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Grant Edwards |
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<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2011-09-05, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> Graham Murray wonders: |
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>>> Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today |
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>>> is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has |
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>>> rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change, |
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>>> then the next day a new version was put in the tree, then there was an |
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>>> -r1 release and today there is yet another use flag change. |
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>> Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now, |
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> What?? |
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> So if I don't have a printer, and have no intention of printing |
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> anything from this system, libreoffice requires that I install Cups? |
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In my puny laptop, CUPS takes 1 min to compile, the source code is 4.4 |
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Mb and the installed binaries are 9.3 Mb. It seems to be updated at |
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the rate of once a month, roughly. |
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I have never configured CUPS, *ever*, and it always just works when I |
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connect to a new network. The printers just appear in the print |
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dialog, and it always works. It always remembers my last selected |
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options. |
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To me it seems a rather sane default to always require the most used |
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printing system in an office suite. |
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> Sounds like it's time to switch back to OOo. |
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It would not surprise me that they will switch to mandatory CUPS in |
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the future. It just happened before in LO because they develop new |
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features faster, I believe. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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