Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 65587
qt requires on libcups.so ???
Last modified: 2007-03-26 23:53:31 EDT
Description of Problem: qt rpm packages dependences are astonishing - all depend on libcups.so.2 !! What, particular printing system is required to use qt toolkit ? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qt-3.0.3-11 and related qt packages How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
This is intentional. Qt is a very powerful toolkit - it includes support for printing (code-wise, this is very comfortable - you just treat the printer like the screen). It needs to get a list of available printers. With lpd/LPRng, the only way to do this is to parse /etc/printcap (and every application uses its own way to do that -- rather messy). With CUPS, you get libcups, and an application just calls a function and has a list of printers. Because of this, Qt requires the CUPS *libraries* to support printing with CUPS. It does NOT require the actual CUPS spooler to be used.
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