I would appreciate a "printer" or "printing" USE flag, that could be used to turn off all printing support in programs (not just cups support) if you don't want it (e.g. USE="-printer"). Ebuilds that could make use from it: * for version 4.0.6 of xfce4: "xfce-base/xfce4-base" * for later versions "xfce-base/xfce4-base" depend on "xfce-base/xfprint", which in turn depends on a bunch of other things I don't use (ghostscript, a2ps,..). AFAIK xfce4 does not require the printing component to work. I have hand-edited the xfprint out from ebuilds until now and only problem that i see, is cosmetic: xfce4 has the printing icon in the default panel config. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
The xfce4-base and xfce4 metabuilds are meant to cover the entire xfce distribution. These is nothing preventing you from doing what you have done and edit them out in an overlay or emerge the components individually. I'm not willing to add a flag that makes our metapackage deviate from upstream.
