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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2011-09-06, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Nobody is forcing you to anything: but upstream projects (like |
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>> LibreOffice) need to fulfill the needs of all their users... not only |
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>> you. Don't force *them* to support every single printing system in the |
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>> planet earth; |
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> I wasn't complaining about lack of support for other printing systems. |
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And I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to Alan. |
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> I was complaining about the lack of support for _no_ printing system. |
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> It seems dumb to make somebody without a printer install CUPs seems. |
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I don't have a printer, and I need CUPS. Again, it's not about the |
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necessities of one user (being you or me), it's about the necessities |
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of the majority. And the majority of users installing LibreOffice |
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*need* printing support. And CUPS is the best option available. |
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>> Because the Open Source community has limited resources. The |
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>> LibreOffice devs (or maybe the Gentoo ones) choose to support CUPS and |
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>> only CUPS, because it takes care of the most cases, not only yours. |
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> What about the lack of a CUPS install would make LibreOffice fail? |
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> Does LibreOffice depend on libraries provided by CUPS even if you |
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> don't want to print? |
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That's not the point: the point is that you want to force *another* |
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configuration that the devs have to test and maintain and QA, and you |
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don't seem to care that your use-case is not very common. |
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In other words: if the devs keep allowing LO without CUPS support, |
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they need to spend time and effort to make sure that this option |
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works. On the other hand, if they make CUPS mandatory they only need |
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to worry about the normal/common case of users of office suites having |
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the need to print, and the cost is to force a tiny (less than 10 Mb |
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program) to some (very few) users. |
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> As for cups being "huge", the standard install comprises over 500 |
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> files. That's still huge in my book. |
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Again, if you are installing LibreOffice, which has 3098 files and |
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uses 260 Mb of hd space, it makes no sense at all that you complain |
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against CUPS size. |
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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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