The cups-1.1.23-r3 ebuild introduces the mandatory use of an alternate and non-official pdftops filter replacement; basically a wrapper script that calls xpdf's pdftops utility. The large problem is that xpdf is now required for a cups installation and anything else needed to support it, such as t1lib, gnu-gs-fonts-std, ghostscript, and freetype at a minimum. Certainly not welcome in many server installations. Changes such as this can also cause support issues. Additonally, it also appears that to be really useful, the replacement filter should use a companion pdftops.conf file (available from the same site as the filter) that can be further tweaked by the user. This companion config file is not installed, nor is the user made aware of its existence. Can the alternate pdftops filter be useful? Most likely to some. But it should not be forced on us. An "altpdf" USE flag could be implemented to allow users the option. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Request that the alternate pdftops filter is not used by default. If it is deemed so desirable please add a use flag for it. Remove the rdepend of xpdf unless that altpdf flag is set.
same in net-print/cups-1.1.23-r4
those three dependencies now depend on the truetype use flag in xpdf-3.00-r9, they are used for nicer fonts
