Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:21:41 -0500 From: James Halstead <jah4007@cs.rit.edu> To: Christopher Masto <chris@masto.com>, Thomas Yengst <yengst@photon.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: cups-1.1.10.1 Message-ID: <200110310222.f9V2MFh26624@mailout5.nyroc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20011030194546.A1633@masto.com> References: <3BDF3BF6.456B7252@photon.com> <20011030194546.A1633@masto.com>
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Yes, as with anytime tools are installed that conflict with native ones, this is a problem. You may be able to remove binaries safely, but not sure if kde will like having the libraries and headers pulled out from under it. Perhaps the kde people would be able to remove the dependency by default, and only install cups when WITH_CUPS is defined at build time? That will probably effect the build, but there may be a way around it. Personally, I think that kde forcing everybody that to install cups is not the best idea for exactly the reason here. James On Tuesday 30 October 2001 07:45 pm, Christopher Masto wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 03:47:02PM -0800, Thomas Yengst wrote: > > Perhaps a small nit, but cups installs a new lpr in /usr/local/bin. At > > least in my environment, /usr/local/bin/ is parsed before /usr/bin/, > > which means "lpr" is called from the cups package before the system > > version of lpr. The cups lpr creates really strange errors like: > > > > % ls | lpr > > lpr: error - no default destination available. > > > > % ls | lpr -Php5 > > lpr: unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable > > > > cups is a dependency for a couple of other packages, so the unsuspecting > > user could install it without knowing that he could change his print > > environment. > > Worse than that, someone who uses LPRng (and depends on it for his > enterprise-wide printing) could install KDE and find all of the LPRng > binaries have been overwritten. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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