Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:27:38 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/samba Makefile - vs lpr Message-ID: <p05101005b84c08eca62c@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200112222021.fBMKLQ768152@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200112222021.fBMKLQ768152@freefall.freebsd.org>
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At 12:21 PM -0800 12/22/01, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >dwcjr 2001/12/22 12:21:26 PST > > Modified files: > net/samba Makefile > Log: > Make samba depends on cups instead of cups-base because it might > need lpr > > Submitted by: marcus@marcuscom.com Uh, last I checked, 'lpr' is in the base system. You don't need to install cups to get "some version of lpr". No port should install the cups-version of lpr if it "might need" it, it should only do that if it DOES need the cups-specific version. The whole reason for splitting up the old cups port into cups-base and cups was that the KDE port was causing the cups version of lpr to be installed, which in turn generated bug reports from those people who did NOT expect to be using CUPS, and did not understand why they were getting into weird printing problems. Those weird printing problems usually end up in my mailbox (gad@freebsd.org), one way or another. In the case of samba, I can believe there might be a direct benefit from using the cups-version instead of the default system version, but the way this change is described makes me a little uneasy. I'm a bit too busy with the holiday right now, but I'd like to have a firmer idea as to why the samba port "must" install the alternate version of lpr. And if samba does require cups-lpr, then try to think a little bit about how do this without confusing people who aren't aware of cups. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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