Re: FYI, installing cups renders firefox unable to print

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On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 05:42:07PM -0500, John D. Baker wrote:
> I first ran into that a couple of years ago.
> 
> There's a control you can add to firefox:
> 
>     Name: print.postscript.cups.enabled
>   Status: user set
>     Type: boolean
>    Value: false
> 
> so firefox won't try to use cups even if it is installed but not active.
> Last I heard, ryoon@ was going to add that as a default to future firefox
> packages, but I guess it didn't happen.
> 
> Of course, as you found, simply removing cups works as well.
> 
> I disable cups globally with in PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS+=-cups, but openjdk8
> claims it as a build dependency, so if you built/updated openjdk8 on
> the same system on which you now run firefox, you will have cups (cups-base
> these days, actually) installed anyway.

Thank you! this is really informative!

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