As prices for full featured printers with PCL or PostScript have come down and the fact that GDI printers have some disadvantages the number of pure GDI printers is decreasing. So if someone wants to run a GDI printer on her or his Linux Box they still can install that package but most Linux users will have printers that are supported by the cups system. And I think noone who has a printer that offers GDI and PCL or PS will go for the GDI driver because printing is slower due to the additional CPU load and the fact that bitmaps being sent to the printer are usually much larger than a PCL or PS print file. Therefore it makes sense to remove the driver from the dependencies because according to my experience as to sales numbers of GDI printers and people using such models is really small because of the disadvantages.
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