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Date:      Sat, 13 Mar 2004 06:41:30 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        zhangweiwu@realss.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why CUPS depends on XFree86 libraries?
Message-ID:  <20040313144130.GA59729@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <BAY16-F24ntu0hDQwfc00005584@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY16-F24ntu0hDQwfc00005584@hotmail.com>

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On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 05:11:44PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Hello. I have a old pentium P166 box in the corner of my office running=
=20
> FreeBSD 5.2. I wish to connect my printer on it and make it a print serve=
r.=20
>=20
>=20
> "pkg_add -rv cups" pulls down lots of depended packages, it pulls down=20
> XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6 for dependency.
>
>
> Just to be courious, does CUPS has anything to do with X11?

The GUI tools need a GUI ;-) The base printing utilities do not; you
can just install cups-base and cups-lpr if you don't need the GUI
bits.

Kris

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