On 20/02/17 21:47, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Hey all, 
>
> 1) Putting printer drivers into "net-print" is silly.
>
> Something that converts format a to device-specific format b has absolutely 
> nothing to do with network.
> So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware drivers, (or 
> "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make sense.
>
> 2) After introducing that, however, "net-print" becomes nearly empty.
>
> On a quick glance, the only *network*-specific packages in there are cups and 
> lprng. Maybe one or two more which I dont recognize.
>
> So move cups and lprng to "net-misc" and drop "net-print"? 
> Or move them to new "sys-print" as well?
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers, 
> Andreas
>
sys-print/cups seems perfectly logical .. its not unique to 'network
printing' ..

How about an actual listing of the remaining packages? We can throw them
into new cat's in the bikeshed ...

MJE