Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of cups and physical printing ...

[David Haller]

Hello,

On Tue, 05 Jan 2016, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:07:47 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>> > You stipulate physical printing. Does that mean you want to retain th
>> > ability to print to PDF or PS? If so, you would still need at least
>> > Ghostscript and possibly CUPS too, although you should be able to get
>> > rid of the PPD packages.

Same here.

>I would think USE="-cups" would help, but some packages do have a hard
>dependency on printing, which has been the subject of rants on this list
>in the past.

Yeah, it does not really help for some packages, some won't even
compile withouth cups and other stuff (e.g. libreoffice without cups,
hunspell etc. pp:

>=app-text/hunspell-1.3.2-r3
app-text/mythes
>=app-text/libetonyek-0.1.1
>=app-text/libmwaw-0.3.4
app-text/libwpd:0.10[tools]
app-text/libwpg:0.3
=app-text/libwps-0.3*
=dev-cpp/libcmis-0.5*
>=dev-libs/hyphen-2.7.1
>=dev-libs/redland-1.0.16
>=media-libs/libfreehand-0.1.0
media-libs/libpagemaker
>=media-libs/libvisio-0.1.0
net-nds/openldap

This is _ALL_ stuff I don't want, esp. the spelling crap. I've yet to
see a spellchecker that helps more than it hinders.

Anyway, I've patched some ebuilds so they compile without cups, if at
all possible, feel free to ask via PM (they're mostly untested so
far), so I won't put them up for download anywhere yet.

-dnh

-- 
>> This needs quotes:
>> use lib "/path/to/perl/modules";
> Single or double quotes?
Yes.   -- Tad McClellan in comp.lang.perl.misc

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of cups and physical printing ...

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:07:47 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

> > You stipulate physical printing. Does that mean you want to retain th
> > ability to print to PDF or PS? If so, you would still need at least
> > Ghostscript and possibly CUPS too, although you should be able to get
> > rid of the PPD packages.

> ...my "I am no native english speaker" hit me again it seems... ;)
> 
> With "physical printing" I meant the step which "put it on
> paper"...or in other words: Everything which involves the device
> "printer" (...hrrmmm...NOT anything in /dev/the thing on the
> desktop, which has 9 needles in the past...;) 8) )
> 
> For creating PDF I use either TeX and friends. Or gimp or
> similiar (Image-/Graphicsmagick).

I would think USE="-cups" would help, but some packages do have a hard
dependency on printing, which has been the subject of rants on this list
in the past.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"Of course, I could switch back to Windows. At least there, if I have a
problem, I don't suffer under the illusion that I could ever fix it." -


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Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of cups and physical printing ...

[Meino . Cramer]

Neil Bothwick  [16-01-02 11:53]:
> On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 06:50:22 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> 
> > I am not using a physical printer. 
> > 
> > Is it possible to get completly rid of cups and 
> > other "physical printing"-related stuff somehow?
> 
> You stipulate physical printing. Does that mean you want to retain th
> ability to print to PDF or PS? If so, you would still need at least
> Ghostscript and possibly CUPS too, although you should be able to get rid
> of the PPD packages.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Neil Bothwick
> 
> Eye of newt, toe of frog, regular Coke and fries to go, please.


Hi Neil,

...my "I am no native english speaker" hit me again it seems... ;)

With "physical printing" I meant the step which "put it on
paper"...or in other words: Everything which involves the device
"printer" (...hrrmmm...NOT anything in /dev/the thing on the
desktop, which has 9 needles in the past...;) 8) )

For creating PDF I use either TeX and friends. Or gimp or
similiar (Image-/Graphicsmagick).

Best regards,
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of cups and physical printing ...

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 06:50:22 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

> I am not using a physical printer. 
> 
> Is it possible to get completly rid of cups and 
> other "physical printing"-related stuff somehow?

You stipulate physical printing. Does that mean you want to retain th
ability to print to PDF or PS? If so, you would still need at least
Ghostscript and possibly CUPS too, although you should be able to get rid
of the PPD packages.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Eye of newt, toe of frog, regular Coke and fries to go, please.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of cups and physical printing ...

[Brandon Vincent]

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 10:50 PM,   wrote:
> Any global USE-flag I can set/delete to accomplish
> this?

I would think -cups should do the job.

Brandon Vincent

[gentoo-user] Getting rid of cups and physical printing ...

[Meino . Cramer]

Hi,

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! :)

I am not using a physical printer. 

Is it possible to get completly rid of cups and 
other "physical printing"-related stuff somehow?

Any global USE-flag I can set/delete to accomplish 
this?

Thank you very much for any help in advance!
Best regards,
mcc