Re: firefox printing: extraneous printers, removing xprint and dependencies

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:13:46 +0000
Clive Menzies <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On (18/01/06 21:35), Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > I have several extraneous printers in my Firefox (1.07) print dialog
> > in my pure sid system. They each end @:64 (such as hppsc1200@:64).
> > The archives at
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/06/msg00282.html
> >
> > suggest this is caused by Xprint being installed. I really don't care
> > that these printers exist, except that they don't work correctly. I
> > normally print with CUPS but the CUPS printers are not the default
> > forcing me to manually select them each time :-(
> >
> > Okay, so, per the thread referenced above,
> >
> > sudo apt-get --purge remove xprint
> >
> > causes the always scary "other packages to be removed:
> > x-window-system" etc etc etc. I'm pretty sure this is a meta-package
> > and is not critical, especially as the whole operation will only free
> > up about 4500k of disc space, which seems small to me for the entire
> > x-window-system to be heading for the bin.
> >
> > So my questions: 1) are my assumptions regarding the meta-package
> > correct? That is, I may break the meta-package, but not impact the
> > underlying actual packages.
> > 2) seeing as I'm pretty sure I don't actually use xprint, are there
> > any reasons for keeping it around tht I might not be aware of? Such
> > as, "its better than cups" or the like. the xprint website, while
> > extensive couldn't really answer this fundamental question for me.
>
> I can't remember the detail but I, like you, hesitated to remove xprint
> in spite of the annoyances you refer to. When I bit the bullet it was
> fine; to be on the safe side you may want to make the changes from a
> console rather than xterminal just in case something gets borked in your
> X setup; recovery would be pretty straightforward that way.

yeah, my thoughts too. Since you jumped in ahead of me... ;) I'll give it a whirl and see what happens.

thanks

A

>
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> Clive
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