From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 9 19:20:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C7B37B427; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 19:20:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:19:52 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, will@FreeBSD.org Subject: CUPS dependency in KDE packages Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:19:46 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Brian.Dean@sas.com Message-ID: <040735219030a12FE7@mail7.nc.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I don't like the way that KDE drags in CUPS. I don't know anything about CUPS except that I can't print if it's enabled, and frankly I don't care to have to learn anything about CUPS just to use KDE. (If I try to print with CUPS enabled as a regular user it claims that the queue can't be found. Works as root, though as it turns out that's probably not a permissions problem but rather the fact that my root has a different path set up.) I just did a pkg_delete -f of CUPS and now I can print again (yay!), but it's a pretty ugly thing to have to do and it took me quite a while to figure out that that was the solution to my problem. Could this be made into one of those optional --WITH things? Is there any way to make things like that optional when installing from packages? This may be more of a generalized problem with the whole ports/packages design, and I understand that it's a little complex, but I hope that a solution will be thought of. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message