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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:16:14 -0500
From: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
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Subject: Re: CUPS support can be unconditional
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:10:14PM -0500, Alan Eldridge wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:42:33PM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote:
>>On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Alan Eldridge wrote:
>>
>>> I would recommend, upon some reflection, doing this the way we did in
>>> kdelibs.  That is, cups-base is unconditional. If somebody really
>>> wants to use cups, they can't rely on another port to suck it in via
>>> dependency anyway; it doesn't work without being configured.
>>
>>I don't understand why your making CUPS mandatory for Samba.  Some users
>>won't want it period.  They'll want to stick with BSD printing (like for
>>use with apsfilter).  This will cause unnecessary download and build time.
>>
>A user who installs both samba and cups from packages (for example,
>when installing a new system from CDROM) finds that it won't work?
>
>That is a rather gross violation of POLA.
>

Case in point:

Building a new file and print server, I would not be likely to install
development tools. So if I want cups + samba, I have to go to another
machine with development tools installed, build a new samba, install
it, make a package, transfer it back to the machine I'm setting up?
That's pretty harsh just to save someone else the time of downloading
a 4M package file.

-- 
Alan Eldridge
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