Mick wrote:
On Friday 09 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 09 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
See other thread on this very subject yesterday and today for
details:

emerge -avC <all foomatic ebuilds>
emerge -av  <all foomatic ebuilds>
Yes; that worked.

Thank you very much for patiently answering this question -- sigh --
again!

(Wish I had parsed it more carefully!!)
It gets easier round about the 42nd time. At least that's how it worked
for me :-)

Is foomatic needed for cups to work? I have been carrying it around for the last few years, but I was not sure if it is needed.

I don't pretend to know how it all worked before and now, but in my case I had all of the foomatic stuff stuff installed. After reading Alan's advice, I decided to unmerge all of them and then let emerge tell me what it needed - which is now only net-print/foomatic-filters. Works fine.

(I'm running an HP printer, hplp-2.8.2, and cups-1.3.7-r1.)

HTH
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