If you do not have any printer installed, then you will not need cups to be started on every boot.
To reply to other use cases: if you have an printer, and there are jobs left from the last reboot, I will like an dialog prompt: do you still want to print the last jobs or cancel ? On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Steve Langasek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: >> Am Dienstag, den 04.02.2014, 20:26 +0400 schrieb Dmitry Shachnev: > >> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Oliver Grawert <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > is it actually a less rare task on a desktop ? > >> > > apart from a professional office desktop I'd say printing at home is >> > > nowadays nearly as rare from desktops as it might be from >> > > phones/tablets. > >> > I disagree, I print something from my (home) desktop every week. Also, >> > for most printers you need to be connected with a wire to print >> > something, which makes printing from phones/tablets quite difficult, >> > if possible at all. > >> so does "every week" mean once a week ? for that 10 mins you surely dont >> need to run the daemon for 7 days ... (even if you in summary spend 1h >> printing per week i would doubt it is worth running the daemon all the >> time) > > Actually, it's even more than that... the typical home desktop isn't kept > powered on 24/7, so if we're doing on-demand activation, then chances are > you'll still hit that startup penalty each time you print, whether or not > we shut down cups again when not in use. > > In which case, I think it does make sense to auto-stop cups in the common > case (i.e., no shared queues). > > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ > [email protected] [email protected] > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel > -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
