-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Olivier Thauvin wrote: > Le Lundi 29 Septembre 2003 14:20, Lea Gris a écrit : > >>Buchan Milne a écrit : >>| And why do I in a corporate network, with no modem attached, need to >>| install a setuid binary (pppd) just to install kmail (which used to >>| install kppp also, which requires ppp). >>| >>| Sorry, but this is a good move that has been requested for a long time, >>| you won't find many supporters for reverting this. >> >>And if you remove cups you also remove samba. Can't have samba without a >>cups server even if thera are no print service on the host. >> >>This tells Mdk folks could classfy packages dependancies inside rules >>and clearly define if it realy need to be dependant. > > > One good way would be to provides printserver on all printing apps (cups, lpr, > lprng...) and samba requires it. > > This will give choice. Maybe we should create an empty packages providing > printserver to permit to not install lpr server, this will give choice to > user: > > # urpmi samba > one of this is need > 1 cups > 2 lprng > 3 no_printer_server > What is your choice ?
This has no bearing on the matter, since we build against libcups. If we didn't, you wouldn't require any printing-related software installed. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/eCvQrJK6UGDSBKcRAiskAJ9xymQ8A79/cSZf7djoTA+ihDDfrwCcCstu 0zpQPYhl1GA5DGBo9ONeBjU= =IbyJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
