Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)



On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:17:45AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:39:46AM +1000, CaT wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:51:00PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
s. keeling wrote:
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
...
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
lprng

toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui

Thank you. At least someone figured out that there was a reason why one
might want to try apt-get instead. Aptitude, imo, tries too hard to err
on the side of the completely clueless user.


Could some of that problem be having aptitude treat recommends as
required?

aptitude is just doing what the package dependencies tell it to do.

foomatic-gui Depends: python-gnome2-extras
python-gnome2-extras Depends: python-gnome2-desktop
python-gnome2-desktop Depends: libgtksourceview1.0-0
libgtksourceview1.0-0 Depends: libgnomeprint2.2-0
libgnomeprint2.2-0 Recommends: cupsys

If you think this is inappropriate, I suggest you file a bug on
libgnomeprint2.2-0.

Daniel


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