[Pkg-hpijs-devel] hpijs uninstalls other printing systems

[Julien BLACHE]

Rogério Brito <rbrito at ime.usp.br> wrote:

Hi,

> But, back to the present problem, just trying to get hpijs, we get cups,
> which, in turn, grabs ssl-cert (huh? I just wanted a driver for
> ghostscript, please), also brings in ttf-freefont (oh, just wanted a
> driver for ghostscript!), foomatic-filters (again, just a single driver
> for ghostscript, please), hplip (which, in turn, pulls in libsane, among
> others), cupsddk (really?) :-(.

I strongly support Rogério's request and I echo his feelings. I've
been bothered by this for far too long already, and the last update
managed to pull in even more crap with consolekit and policykit.

Please find a way to decouple hpijs from hplip (demoting hplip to a
Recommends seems like a good start) and to decouple the printing and
scanning parts of hplip. If you need to apply the cluebat to upstream
for this to happen, then by all means, please do.

hplip is only getting worse in every single aspect as time passes,
this has to stop.

JB.

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