Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 20:56:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Java without CUPS Message-ID: <20090521204319.I27769@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20090507053140.6bf04539.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090506221421.N3109@tripel.monochrome.org> <20090507053140.6bf04539.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 7 May 2009, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2009 22:34:52 -0400 (EDT), Chris Hill > <chris@monochrome.org> wrote: > >> I know that, since my printer speaks Postscript, I don't need CUPS. >> But some of the ports I'm installing want to install CUPS as a >> dependency. The first one I happened across was java/jdk16, but I'd >> be surprised if there weren't more. > > Just as an information: Gimp (Gutenprint) installs CUPS, allthough I > already have apsfilter (HP Laserjet 4000 PCL). When printing, Gimp > still tries to "connect to server" (lpstat). Ah, I didn't know that. It would be nice if they didn't assume... well, never mind. > But I think it's possible to delete CUPS from the system after > JDK is compiled successfully: CUPS isn't listed in RUN_DEPENDS > so it doesn't seem to be required for running JDK / Java. That seems like a reasonable workaround, being that I'm lazy and all :^) Thank you for being the voice of reason, and for the obscure Homer references. > Polytropon > From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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