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

[Dale]

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

This is rather odd.  For the longest, every time I had a cups update, I 
had to delete my printers then add them back again.  It would not print 
until I did so.  That wasn't long ago either.  I haven't had to do that 
the last few upgrades but for over a year, that was required.  It used 
to get on my nerves.  Restarting the service I can understand.  It needs 
to reload its new config and all but not deleting and adding them again.

Maybe you and I should add, YMMV.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)