On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:02:28 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:

> > cups + hplip is pretty robust. I can't quell my curiousity as to
> > why you would not want to use that solution, paticualrly for an
> > HP printer?  
> 
> Mostly because I want a minimal system. I have cups already which KDE
> can use, I don’t need (or want) another tool that does the same job and
> that has a lot of GUI stuff that my printer doesn’t support anyway
> (scanners and such).

We have these things called USE flags...

 eix hplip
* net-print/hplip
     Available versions:  3.14.1 (~)3.14.6 (~)3.14.10 {X doc fax +hpcups
     hpijs kde libnotify -libusb0 minimal parport policykit qt4 scanner
     snmp static-ppds}


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