102238 – Installing CUPS without X isn't possible

Bug 102238 - Installing CUPS without X isn't possible

Summary: Installing CUPS without X isn't possible

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 96301

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Printing (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement
Assignee:	Printing Team

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Reported:	2005-08-12 07:08 UTC by Stefan Kögl
Modified:	2005-08-12 07:47 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Stefan Kögl 2005-08-12 07:08:36 UTC

The CUPS ebuild depends on xpdf, what makes it impossible to install CUPS on a
server without having to install X. I don't think CUPS really needs xpdf to run,
so maybe there could be a USE-flag added to CUPS on whether to use xpdf or not.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-12 07:21:31 UTC

A duplicate of bug 96303?

Comment 2 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-12 07:38:36 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96301 ***

Comment 3 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-12 07:47:55 UTC

Well, this is not really a bug, but more an USE-flag-problem

let's look at the xpdf ebuild depends:

DEPEND="motif? ( !s390? ( virtual/x11
    x11-libs/openmotif ) )
    truetype? (
        >=media-libs/freetype-2.0.5
        media-libs/t1lib
        virtual/ghostscript
    )"
ah. nice, so it's obviously possible to build xpdf without X. I suggest you to
try it with -motif only as you might want to use truetype-fonts in your printserver.