Re: Do I need /rc.d/cupsd to run libreoffice4?

[Richard PALO <richard%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Le 10/10/15 13:00, Greg Troxel a écrit :
> 
> Petar Bogdanovic <petar%smokva.net@localhost> writes:
> 
>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 08:27:21AM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> bash-4.3$ sudo pkgin install libreoffice4-4.4.3.2nb1
>>>
>>> cups-2.0.3nb1: copying /usr/pkg/share/examples/cups/snmp.conf to
>>> /usr/pkg/etc/cups/snmp.conf
>>> ========================================
>>> The following files should be created for cups-2.0.3nb1:
>>>
>>>         /etc/rc.d/cupsd (m=0755)
>>>             [/usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/cupsd]
>>>
>>> ==========================================
>>>
>>> Do I really need the cups daemon running if I am not using a printer?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure you don't need a running cupsd.  libreoffice probably
>> depends on cups for its libcups* parts and the message you quoted is
>> just the standard cups MESSAGE.
> 
> I too really doubt it.  I think the only reason libreoffice depends is
> to be able to put complicated printer setup choices into the libreoffice
> UI.
> 
> I continue to think that 95%+ of our MESSAGE files should be removed :-)
> Using an rc script is not special and does not merit shouting at the user.
> 
> Separately, arguably the cups libs that (probably) libreoffice wants
> could be in a separate package without the daemon.  I suspect that's
> hard, and it's not like it hurts that much on a machine that can run
> libreoffice.
> 
> 

It is possible to break cups into components (e.g. cups-base cups-client etc)
as indicated in a discussion on tech-pkg@...

-- 
Richard PALO