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* Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps
  @ 2010-04-07 23:44 99%               ` Enrico Weigelt
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From: Enrico Weigelt @ 2010-04-07 23:44 UTC (permalink / raw
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* Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> schrieb:

> > Does anyone know what exactly for ?
> > Didnt have the time for an deeper investigation, but if an widget
> > toolkit requires an printing service, something really strange
> > is happening, IMHO ... ;-o
> >
> 
> Download the gtk+ tarball and take a peek inside ./modules/printbackends/cups
> 
> You'll find your answer there.

Yes, sometimes answers you'd even wouldn't like to know ;-o

Folks, these gtk guys are on bad drugs (well, that's not sucha
new enlightenment ;-o) ...

a) gtk-printer backends are separate *shared* libraries, which
   are loaded somewhere at runtime. absolutely no need to ship
   and build them within the gtk+ tree
 
b) the whole gtk-printer api might be a nice thing (even i just
   have a dozen of better solutions at the tip of my head ;-o),
   but I can't see any technical reasons for having that all
   within a widget toolkit, instead of a separate library.


hmm, time for a fork ? ;-)


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2010-03-01 21:24     [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps Ben de Groot
2010-03-05 20:51     ` Maciej Mrozowski
2010-03-05 21:06       ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-06  9:11         ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-03-06 11:32           ` Ben de Groot
2010-03-06 17:05             ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-04-07 22:43               ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-04-07 22:58                 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
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