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?
Cheerio,
hauke
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