From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NnFEx-0002Aa-4J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:53:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1D5EE0CAB; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:53:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.159]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF74E0C53 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:53:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so488748fga.10 for ; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:53:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8zCEhuGA0cozdt7jJC3u3gmJGhgtVeD8q4AgzmyLeBs=; b=NqR3HuoSlwjhe+TwnGyV/m1Lo4EAtL6D43c7UusSqNjn7njz4HhxiD17yGn+nrFUvC 53tOrYOiJqPDBU5HrFZZCy41l0uqOhig7b64Wbfp1yiE4D4pqOFYdVdiIMlCiwV3QI8/ WAamjUIH8WX2y0tOHTmEBx48JiIkcwBoxckmg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=KcZYDZtF3P2XkW1fI3t1+/l2cOgIakGBo9wea48xqeWx13wfXZW5WiC6NmG+pOX5QT m2T6drNi7fFTo6fWL4RXbNQADIRDq/RvuxlJ8zKdnQxaEGf88nqK0cfAxW46ChnJtoCY 0eCzPg65xrn76bJx6fYqNVs3zMzgbV6VqntKs= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: yngwin.gentoo@gmail.com Received: by 10.239.193.17 with SMTP id g17mr337598hbi.136.1267725211171; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:53:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <24205fb6ca08a56f3d4d8b14ae72b0ee@jolexa.net> References: <1267641936.26170.5.camel@localhost> <201003040756.48943.cla@gentoo.org> <20100303230807.2a1ac862@angelstorm> <24205fb6ca08a56f3d4d8b14ae72b0ee@jolexa.net> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:53:30 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7c2ec7e05c7dd32c Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps From: Ben de Groot To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 34073512-bcb9-47a4-b3a7-54dc62a9e299 X-Archives-Hash: cc7e21d6ff7cf468ffa24df21aa43dc9 On 4 March 2010 18:23, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:04:17 +0000 (UTC), Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> > wrote: >> Indeed. =C2=A0Some (many?) of us use printing uncommonly enough that it'= s >> cheaper to put it on a thumb drive and take it to a printer than buy a >> printer -- and pay for another $10-30 ink cartridge every time we want >> to print something, because the last one dried up between uses. > > Similarly, I have never *owned* a printer because work or school always > has had free printing. So, my opinion is that the Gentoo default of > USE=3Dcups in desktop profiles is bogus for *my* Gentoo desktops. Exactly. The last time I owned a printer is over 5 years ago. So I don't think cups warrants to be in the standard desktop profile. Cheers, --=20 Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________