Bug 497440 - query: remove dep on foomatic
Summary: query: remove dep on foomatic
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 456906
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-printer
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-23 21:37 UTC by Peter Robinson
Modified: 2009-06-10 11:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-06-10 11:34:33 UTC
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Description Peter Robinson 2009-04-23 21:37:40 UTC
I'm not sure if this is possible so its a query. I believe from a client printing perspective with cups printing to a network IPP printer you shouldn't need drivers but rather just the core cups bits. So it would be nice to be able be still able to print without having to install the massive foomatic plus deps (perl etc) for basic network printing support. The foomatic+perl deps make up around +65Mb of rpms (according to yum) which while not massive ends up making quite a large dep for the likes of a thin terminal, OLPC or a netbook with a 2Gb SSD (like a eeePC 701). I'm not sure if it would be possible to do a PackageKit style system that has been implemented for AV codecs and fonts if a user plugs in a printer to pop up a dialog to install foomatic so that its not a hard dep.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 14:29:43 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2009-06-10 11:34:33 UTC
This is a duplicate of bug #456906 really, in that once the PackageKit-style method is implemented the foomatic dependency can indeed be dropped.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 456906 ***


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