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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 07:30:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: ports/32321: x11/kdelibs2 installs print cups, which then causes problem
Message-ID:  <200111291530.fATFU1B20390@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/32321; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To: James Halstead <jah4007@cs.rit.edu>
Cc: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>,
	Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org,
	kde-freebsd@lists.csociety.org, gad@freebsd.org, kde@freebsd.org,
	leimbacd@bellsouth.net
Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: ports/32321: x11/kdelibs2 installs print cups, which then causes problem
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:24:29 -0500

 On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:17:49AM -0500, James Halstead wrote:
 > I would not be against moving what is the print/cups port to a new cups-base 
 > port, keeping my new cups-bin port (as another name) then having the current 
 > cups port be a meta port which installs both. 
 > 
 > This way, anybody installing 'cups' will DTRT and will be basically the same 
 > as before, and people that just need to build and link against cups, can do 
 > so without harming things by using cups-base. That way everybody can be happy 
 > ;P. This will be a simple change against the current newcups-2 state of 
 > things.
 
 Sounds good to me.  :-)
 
 > The only difference about this way and the current way will be that anybody 
 > depending on cups will have to change it to cups-base.
 
 Why?  If you change cups to a metaport it shouldn't be any
 different from the old way.
 
 > I will make the change and upload it, after I get home from work today.
 
 Thanks.
 
 -- 
 wca

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