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.
done (see useflag lprng-compat in newest cups)
>2 years after net-print/lprng last-rites we can drop the workaround again in the next cups version bump.
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(-)
