>>>>> On Fri, 17 Dec 2021, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: > On Montag, 20. Februar 2017 22:47:17 CET Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> 1) Putting printer drivers into "net-print" is silly. >> >> Something that converts format a to device-specific format b has absolutely >> nothing to do with network. >> So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware drivers, (or >> "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make sense. >> >> 2) After introducing that, however, "net-print" becomes nearly empty. >> >> On a quick glance, the only *network*-specific packages in there are cups >> and lprng. Maybe one or two more which I dont recognize.
Historically these were the first two packages in the net-print category. Looks like it has grown from there, with later packages not really fitting the category's definition. >> So move cups and lprng to "net-misc" and drop "net-print"? >> Or move them to new "sys-print" as well? >> >> What do you think? > I would like to resume this discussion on the occasion of a new [shameless > plug] package PAPPL that is to be packaged, see also [1], from the point > before discussion went off on an X-Y categories tangent. > Here's a list of suggestions made for a new category so far, ordered from > (seemingly) best- to least-liked: > media-print > sys-print > app-print(ing) media-print sounds good. media-gfx would be another possibility. Scanning software like sane is already there. Or we could find an umbrella term for printing and scanning, and move both to that category. > I agree net-print should not remain after such a move. +1 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/829351
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