Bug 116012 – cups relies too heavily on xpdf

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115627
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alan Hourihane 2005-12-19 01:10:13 UTC]

Since cups-1.1.23-r3 it's now relying on xpdf, which ends up pulling in a lots of X related packages.

I don't know why cups as a printing subsystem needs xpdf, but can't this dependency be removed ?

[Comment 1 Alan Hourihane 2005-12-19 01:15:20 UTC]

It's o.k. I can see the solution in #115286.

[Comment 2 Alan Hourihane 2005-12-19 01:22:14 UTC]

Actually, I've just tried....

USE="-motif" emerge -pu cups

and it's still pulling in a lot of X stuff, so -motif doesn't work.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-19 01:53:08 UTC]

For possible solution without xpdf, see Bug 115863. No point in opening duplicate bugs over and over again.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115627 ***

[Comment 4 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2005-12-20 09:54:36 UTC]

You need both -X and -motif for xpdf to not pull in X.

[Comment 5 Alan Hourihane 2005-12-20 12:01:59 UTC]

Maybe xpdf shouldn't be made to depend on X and motif then ??

[Comment 6 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2005-12-20 17:57:32 UTC]

It doesn't, if you USE="-X -motif".  There is no problem here, that I can see.

[Comment 7 Alan Hourihane 2005-12-21 01:28:47 UTC]

It does depend on X and motif, that's why it pulls them in, and that's the whole point of the USE flags.

For normal situations it would be worthwhile xpdf not depending on X and motif as it obviously doesn't require them, and if X and motif are installed, then xpdf can use and build with that functionality enabled.

[Comment 8 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2005-12-21 03:29:02 UTC]

no, it's not worthwhile since the xpdf binary will only be build if you have USE=motif and that is what most people want. the end