Hi Hauke, tech-pkg@, On 13/11/2017 10:55, Hauke Fath wrote: > On 11/12/17 21:24, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 08:53:37AM +1300, Mark Davies wrote: >>> On 13/11/17 03:30, Pierre Pronchery wrote: >>>> I understand however that some users do not care about a functional >>>> cups, and therefore do not want the extra few megabytes of cups-filters >>>> installed. >>> >>> Note that cups-filters is only required on machines that run a cups >>> server. I have many machines that use cups quite happily that don't >>> have cups-filters installed as they only use the client libraries. > > Note though, that upstream actively discourages client-only operation > and wants a cups server running on anything using > cups.<https://lists.cups.org/pipermail/cups/2015-October/027231.html>. > Yes, that is stupid. > >> It's even more restricted. Whether cups-filters is needed depends on the >> type of printer as well. I.e. if the local server is only forwarding to >> another IPP enabled device, you often don't need cups-filters too. This >> change was seriously rushed... > > This is my impression, too. Any chance to have it rolled back, and > re-thought? If you find a better way, I'll be happy to use it. In the meantime, a rollback would be a regression. Cheers, -- khorben
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