Bug 626626

Summary:	www-client/vivaldi Please remove CUPS dependency
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Realname <infmtk>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Realname 2017-07-30 15:58:33 UTC

I have a couple of computers that don't ever print and never will, so the flag cups is disabled; everything works perfectly and I can "print" to PDF from Firefox and Qupzilla. I've tried to install Vivaldi and seen it requires CUPS.
Could you please remove that dependency, since, as said before, print support isn't necessary at all for web browsing nor even to "print" a webpage to a PDF document?

Regards.

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2017-07-30 16:04:05 UTC

/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin is linked against libcups, so I very much doubt it would be possible to remove the dependency on net-print/cups.

Comment 2 Realname 2017-08-05 14:01:41 UTC

(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #1)
> /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin is linked against libcups, so I very much doubt it
> would be possible to remove the dependency on net-print/cups.

Didn't know that. It's so absurd to force users to install unneccesary software when one just wants to browse the web...
Thanks for explaining. I'll try to ask Vivaldi developers if next versions coub be "print free".