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creaker
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 Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 6:21 am Post subject: Xorg cups flag |
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I would ask about cups flag regarding xorg installation.
xorg-server pulls a cups related packages, that much more larger than xorg-server itself.
| Code: | emerge -av xorg-server
Total: 165 packages (165 new), Size of downloads: 493,712 kB |
| Code: | USE="-cups" emerge -av xorg-server
Total: 68 packages (68 new), Size of downloads: 179,233 kB |
How does X depends on cups?
Do I really need to install cups for running X?
I do not planning to use printing right now, may be in future.
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fturco
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| Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: Xorg cups flag |
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| creaker wrote: | | Do I really need to install cups for running X? |
No, you don't need to have cups enabled. For example I don't have a printer and I have -cups in my make.conf. And Xorg runs very well for my needs.
| creaker wrote: | | I do not planning to use printing right now, may be in future. |
You may enable the cups USE flag when the need for printing arises. It's just a matter of editing make.conf and running emerge:
| Code: | | emerge -uDN @world --with-bdeps=y |
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creaker
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| Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, I have already set up a system, all seems fine. Linux incompatible with printing, so I no need cups at all, at least until Linux becomes compatible with it. |
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Mgiese
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| creaker wrote: | | Linux incompatible with printing... |
thats not true ! i installed dozens of printers(network and local)
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