21 Mar
2020
21 Mar
'20
12:46 p.m.
On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 02:08:22 -0400
Snidely Whiplash <therealgrogan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 4:04 PM E. Liddell
<ejlddll(a)warpmail.net> wrote:
Any desktop environment? Let's see:
TDE? CUPS should be optional, barring bugs.
XFCE? Nope, no CUPS deps in the base environment (not even optional).
LXDE/LXQT? Same.
Mate? Same (granted, packages for it are a bit out-of-date in Gentoo)
Gnome? Needs a patch to make CUPS fully optional for gnome control center,
and there are a couple of other optional dependencies.
KDE? CUPS is required unconditionally by xdg-desktop-portal-kde.
So only KDE and Gnome could be said to require it, and Gnome is a bit
iffy.
Of course, Gentoo is not a binary distribution. With the package manager
compiling pretty much everything locally, I have a lot more freedom, at the cost
of slower installation times.
Interestingly, even gutenprint can be compiled without CUPS support, although
I'm not altogether sure why you'd want to.
E. Liddell
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:06:34 -0400
Snidely Whiplash <therealgrogan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It depends what packages you install from a distribution of course. I meant
in context of desktop usage. Any desktop environment you install from
distro packages is likely to have Cups libraries as a dependency. Similarly
for software like LibreOffice (I compile my own and have to pass
--disable-cups on this system.) You can't completely remove CUPS on a Linux
distribution, because it's a
hard dependency for a lot of things.
General-purpose binary distros fold CUPS in and include support for it in
everything because they want to be a "plug-and-play" experience for people
who know nothing about Linux. Linux without CUPS, however, is certainly
possible--the Pi3 blinking happily to itself above my desk has never had
CUPS installed, because it doesn't need it in order to fulfill its role.