On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:59:45 -0400 "Greg Troxel" <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> For people who build from source, that's great, but it means, I think,
> that using cups from binary packages doesn't really work.  That's why I
> was trying to think of how to make the default build work, while not
> causing too much grief.

Good point, but I think this is a non-problem, and here's why :)

I don't think this is different to the Many other packages that optionally 
use CUPS.  I think koffice is an example.

For binary packages I think the answer is that cups should be globally 
enabled in binary builds so that people that want it can use it.

A cups-lib would be a good thing though.

>   The one thing I think might sway it is that it might be nice for 
print/cups 
>   to have a default "ghostscript" option...  That would require a 
cups-lib.
> 
> To avoid a circular dependency?  What would the ghostscript option do?
> Just depend on ghostscript so cups can print ps files to non-ps
> printers

That's what I was thinking.  Not a biggie though.