Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:43:35 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> To: James Halstead <jah4007@cs.rit.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: cups-1.1.10.1 Message-ID: <20011030214335.A8851@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <200110310222.f9V2MFh26624@mailout5.nyroc.rr.com>; from jah4007@cs.rit.edu on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:21:41PM -0500 References: <3BDF3BF6.456B7252@photon.com> <20011030194546.A1633@masto.com> <200110310222.f9V2MFh26624@mailout5.nyroc.rr.com>
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:21:41PM -0500, James Halstead wrote: >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. It's perfectly safe to install kdelibs without cups. It'll have dangling refs in /usr/local/lib/kde2/libkdeprint_cups.*, but as long as you don't set the printing system to CUPS, it'll never know the difference. kde doesn't use the lp* binaries for the CUPS interface at all; it calls the library code. >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 You mean, "configure --disable-cups"? Well, you *could* do that, but it'd make more sense to just remove the dependency info from the port. It only matters if you're installing a binary package of kdelibs, anyway. A source build will use cups or not depending on whether it's there (that is, the default for 'configure' is look for cups and use if found). I don't know how dependencies work in ports (yet); I've spent the last N years dealing with RPM. -- Alan Eldridge from std_disclaimer import * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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