285690 – Suggestion: Add ppds useflag to >=net-print/cups-1.4.1

Bug 285690 - Suggestion: Add ppds useflag to >=net-print/cups-1.4.1

Summary: Suggestion: Add ppds useflag to >=net-print/cups-1.4.1

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee:	Printing Team

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Reported:	2009-09-20 13:26 UTC by Stephan Friedrichs
Modified:	2011-06-05 21:36 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Stephan Friedrichs 2009-09-20 13:26:39 UTC

<=net-print/cups-1.3.11 had a 'ppds' useflag which installed the foomatic-filters. I suggest adding it to cups-1.4 as well, as the filter files are still needed. The necessary changes can pobrably be copied from the 1.3.11 ebuild.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Stephan Friedrichs 2009-12-16 12:58:23 UTC

ping? :)

Comment 2 Timo Gurr (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-16 13:43:42 UTC

foomatic-filters are only needed for a special set of printer drivers, thus should be depended upon in the individual printer driver ebuilds. Furthermore CUPS can generate ppd files on the fly now utilizing the included cupsddk and the whole foomatic stuff needs some changes, cleanups and a bump. I'm working on it, but my time and hardware testing capabilities (except HP) are limited.

Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2011-06-05 14:56:12 UTC

@Timo: What would you suggest as a short-term solution?

Comment 4 Timo Gurr (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-06-05 17:45:29 UTC

I'd help if the reporter would have stated which printer driver he actually uses so we could fix that instead of polluting CUPS with false dependencies.

As for CUPS, resolving as WONTFIX. Please open a new bug for the printer driver which is missing the foomatic-filters dependency so we can fix this bug properly.