Hi, Neil. On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 05:11:20PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 15:48:09 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > (net-print/cups-filters-1.0.53::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for > > merge) pulled in by net-print/cups-filters:0 required by > > @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ > > >=net-print/cups-filters-1.0.43-r1[foomatic] required by > > >(net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds-20070501::gentoo, installed) > > >=net-print/cups-filters-1.0.30 required by > > >(net-print/cups-1.6.4::gentoo, installed) > > net-print/cups-filters required by > > (net-print/foomatic-filters-4.0.17-r1::gentoo, installed) > Does the emerge output somewhere include an update to cups? If the > installed and new versions have different dependencies you may see this. Yes, I think it did. > Remove cups-filters and foomatic-filters, update cups and then run the > world update. Well, the first bit of that went well indeed. Updating cups pulled in cups-filters but not foomatic-filters. Printing now seems to work without the latter. As for a world update, I'm still summoning up the courage. I might let that run overnight, after doing a backup. Thanks for the help! > -- > Neil Bothwick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

