Petar Bogdanovic <petar%smokva.net@localhost> writes: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 08:27:21AM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote: >> Hello, >> >> bash-4.3$ sudo pkgin install libreoffice4-4.4.3.2nb1 >> >> cups-2.0.3nb1: copying /usr/pkg/share/examples/cups/snmp.conf to >> /usr/pkg/etc/cups/snmp.conf >> ======================================== >> The following files should be created for cups-2.0.3nb1: >> >> /etc/rc.d/cupsd (m=0755) >> [/usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/cupsd] >> >> ========================================== >> >> Do I really need the cups daemon running if I am not using a printer? > > I'm pretty sure you don't need a running cupsd. libreoffice probably > depends on cups for its libcups* parts and the message you quoted is > just the standard cups MESSAGE. I too really doubt it. I think the only reason libreoffice depends is to be able to put complicated printer setup choices into the libreoffice UI. I continue to think that 95%+ of our MESSAGE files should be removed :-) Using an rc script is not special and does not merit shouting at the user. Separately, arguably the cups libs that (probably) libreoffice wants could be in a separate package without the daemon. I suspect that's hard, and it's not like it hurts that much on a machine that can run libreoffice.
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