Bug 467226

Summary:	net-print/cups: please provide a way not to install lp-compat executables
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496922
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michał Górny archtester

2013-04-25 14:54:28 UTC

My laptop just broke and I had to move my work to the machine I used as a print server. I'm using lprng there for proper Windows client support and PostScript printer emulation (yay, no more drivers!).

However, lpr support in Linux apps in very poor compared to CUPS support. Therefore, I basically need to install and use CUPS as a print server for local tasks, using 'remote' lprng printer.

At the moment, the lprng ebuild blocks cups due to file collisions. I have tested that removing the lot of 'lp*' executables installed by CUPS and using --nodep allows me to use CUPS successfully with lprng server on the same machine.

I would really appreciate being given an USE flag to disable installing the compatibility lp utilities.

Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2013-05-03 20:03:54 UTC

done (see useflag lprng-compat in newest cups)

Comment 2 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2021-04-20 12:52:34 UTC

>2 years after net-print/lprng last-rites we can drop the workaround again in the next cups version bump.

Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2021-04-20 12:59:23 UTC

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2dedc3d9f5ad07bfbc56b5b4e42564548ab35d2f

commit 2dedc3d9f5ad07bfbc56b5b4e42564548ab35d2f
Author:     Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-04-20 12:56:00 +0000
Commit:     Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-04-20 12:58:47 +0000

    net-print/cups: Drop obsolete IUSE=lprng-compat
    
    net-print/lprng was last-rited more than 2 years ago.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/467226
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.18, Repoman-3.0.3
    Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>

 net-print/cups/cups-2.3.3_p2.ebuild | 14 +-------------
 net-print/cups/cups-9999.ebuild     | 14 +-------------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)