On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:32:10 Brian Harring wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:07:17PM -0600, Dale wrote: > > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > > > On 03/04/10 12:53, Ben de Groot wrote: > > >> Exactly. The last time I owned a printer is over 5 years ago. So I > > >> don't think cups warrants to be in the standard desktop profile. > > >> > > >> Cheers, > > > > > > I print almost daily, but I'm not sure if printers are commonplace > > > enough for cups to be a default. Some users may expect it though. > > > > > > As for the circular deps, it would seem more logical to fix the > > > problem at the source, rather than to cover it up for one subset of > > > users. > > > > I can't think of anyone that doesn't have a printer. All my friends and > > family that has a computer has a printer. Heck, I had a printer hooked > > up to my old Vic-20 for goodness sake. That was over 20 years ago. > > A sampling size of one is of course representive of the whole. The > vast majority of gentoo deployments I deal in, cups is bloat- my > personal laptop, sure, that's a different story. That's well under a > tenth of my installs however. > > The point there is that one size doesn't fit all- we have inheritance > in the profiles for a reason. Shift cups out of the base and into > desktop specific profiles. > > That one shouldn't be a point of debate.
indeed. printing support should absolutely be enabled by default in desktop profiles. i'm not sure it makes sense in other profiles. -mike
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