Starting with net-print/hplip-2.8.5 hp-systray replaces /etc/init.d/hplip startup script. When trying to launch it as a normal user, I get error: Qt3 version of hp-systray requires python-ctypes module. Exiting! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =net-print/hplip-2.8.5 2. hp-systray Actual Results: error: Qt3 version of hp-systray requires python-ctypes module. Exiting! Expected Results: An HP icon appearing in the systray (of KDE in my case) Emerging dev-python/ctypes solved the problem. It should be added as a mandatory dependency of the ebuild.
I'm currently away, so I don't have access to my printer to test this. I'll fix it as soon as I'll get back home, in a couple of days. Denis.
Created attachment 159967 [details] hplip-2.8.5-r1.ebuild with USEflag "systray" I made a -r1 ebuild with the new USEflag "systray" and that dependency with "dev-python/ctypes". Maybe it helps... :)
(In reply to comment #2) > Created an attachment (id=159967) [edit] > hplip-2.8.5-r1.ebuild with USEflag "systray" > > I made a -r1 ebuild with the new USEflag "systray" and that dependency with > "dev-python/ctypes". > Maybe it helps... :) Thanks a lot. I'll have a look at it as soon as I'll have access to my printer, which seems to be less and less often nowadays unfortunately. Denis.
(In reply to comment #2) > Created an attachment (id=159967) [edit] > hplip-2.8.5-r1.ebuild with USEflag "systray" > > I made a -r1 ebuild with the new USEflag "systray" and that dependency with > "dev-python/ctypes". > Maybe it helps... :) > Thanks. It works correctly with the "systray" use flag by pulling "dev-python/ctypes" in. But if you don't use "systray" it still builds the hp-systray executable. And it's the same problem again. If you cannot disable the hp-systray building, maybe should you consider it's part of the package and always pull in "dev-python/ctypes" without any "systray" use flag.
(In reply to comment #4) > If you cannot disable the hp-systray building, maybe should you consider it's > part of the package and always pull in "dev-python/ctypes" without any > "systray" use flag. As annoying as it is (i.e. I'm not particularly fond of the feature), upstream's documentation seems to imply that it is not optional. At least that's what I remember. Denis, still not hear his printer.
I have just committed hplip-2.8.6b. There are new qt3 and qt4 USE flags, and when qt3 is used python-ctypes is added to RDEPEND. Thanks for reporting this. Denis.
