On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 12:24:47PM +0300, Vadim Penzin wrote: > On 7/8/19 12:04 PM, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 11:35:29AM +0300, Vadim Penzin wrote: > > > This is exactly how I solved the problem. About an hour lost in wondering > > > what can be wrong with otherwise perfectly functioning setup. > > > > > > Do you (I liked that royal `we'!) expect the user to read READMEs of every > > > package that Firefox et al. depend on directly or indirectly? > > > > No but if you want to print using cups, I expect you to read at least the > > cups > > README: > > I have done my bit by telling the package manager that I want Firefox *and* > CUPS. It should have worked. > > > $ grep -i gtk /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/cups > > To be able to use CUPS printers from GTK+ applications, the gtk+2-cups, > > gtk+3-cups and/or gtk+4-cups package need to be installed. > > > > > The economy of ~150K of storage does not justify lost time. I can build a > > > complete operating system from source, however I do prefer using packages > > > --- exactly for this reason: not dealing with ridiculous stuff like that. > > > > "The economy of ~150K" ; you're only looking at the direct dependencies > > here. > > Take a look at Firefox dependencies, then add Thunderbird, then Gimp, and > then other programs. *Anyone* installing a full-fledged desktop system > should have another 150K on the drive. Most (if not all) of indirect > dependencies of gtk+[23]-cups will be pulled anyway. > > Storage can be purchased, it is cheap. Time is not. > > > You just don't want to read docs. > > That is a too-far-fetched personal conclusion. I do not want to be forced > into reading documentation in cases like that. I suppose that you had the > pleasure of configuring remote printers in a corporate environment (`Open... > what do you want to print from?'), when IT personnel cannot even tell you > addresses of printers, let alone authentication and queue parameters. > Printing is hard *enough* (for absolutely non-technical reasons). > > > But don't complain. > > It is called user experience.
*inexperience -- Antoine
