Re: Renaming cups to cups-base and depend on cups-filters

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

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.

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...

Joerg