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 1R12yz-0002vT-C9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:15:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F82D21C1CF; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:14:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1523C21C051 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA4E1B404F for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:12:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -5.344 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.344 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.255, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Wi7wuN51tOPU for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:12:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A6C1B4045 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R12wo-0007pO-Rm for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:12:46 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:12:46 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:12:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:12:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87ehzuiu1y.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <20110906164339.GB9867@acm.acm> <2474748.BxeZ24raHv@pc> <20110906174848.GD9867@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5dc8684cb8dbe15abce37a1f94242606 On 2011-09-06, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote: > Nobody is forcing you to anything: but upstream projects (like > LibreOffice) need to fulfill the needs of all their users... not only > you. Don't force *them* to support every single printing system in the > planet earth; I wasn't complaining about lack of support for other printing systems. I was complaining about the lack of support for _no_ printing system. It seems dumb to make somebody without a printer install CUPs seems. > Because the Open Source community has limited resources. The > LibreOffice devs (or maybe the Gentoo ones) choose to support CUPS and > only CUPS, because it takes care of the most cases, not only yours. What about the lack of a CUPS install would make LibreOffice fail? Does LibreOffice depend on libraries provided by CUPS even if you don't want to print? As for cups being "huge", the standard install comprises over 500 files. That's still huge in my book. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I have the power to at HALT PRODUCTION on all gmail.com TEENAGE SEX COMEDIES!!