Hi,

> If you don't have a HP printer/scanner then there is no 
> reason to have hplip installed.
> 
> Please provide the screen dump/ output where it tried to 
> remove printconf et al. That is wrong and should not be happening.

This is the other way around:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:47:~$ sudo aptitude install printconf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  foomatic-db-hpijs{a} hpijs{a} hpijs-ppds{a} hplip{a} hplip-gui{a} 
  openprinting-ppds{a} printconf python-reportlab{a} 
0 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
Need to get 17.1MB/20.6MB of archives. After unpacking 47.2MB will be
used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
 

In other words: I get hplip for free, including the systray applet.

When accepting the above and after that removing hplip, I get this mess:

~$ sudo aptitude remove hplip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following packages are BROKEN:
  hpijs hplip-gui 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  hplip 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 610kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  hplip-gui: Depends: hplip but it is not installable
  hpijs: Depends: hplip (>= 2.8.4-1) but it is not installable
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
hplip-gui

Install the following packages:
gs-gpl [8.62.dfsg.1-2.1 (testing, unstable)]
libsnmp9 [5.2.3-7etch2 (stable)]

Downgrade the following packages:
hpijs [2.8.4+2.8.4-1 (testing, now) -> 2.6.10+1.6.10-3etch1 (stable)]
hpijs-ppds [2.8.4+2.8.4-1 (testing, now) -> 2.6.10+1.6.10-3etch1
(stable)]

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
hplip-data recommends hplip
Score is 1479

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] 


After typing 'n' a few times (downgrading is not what I want), I get
this solution:

The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
foomatic-db-hpijs
hpijs
hpijs-ppds
hplip-gui
printconf

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
foomatic-filters-ppds recommends hplip-ppds
hplip-data recommends hplip
Score is -1445

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] 

> The systray applet is only supposed to display when needed, 
> not all the time. But I have also seen that behaviour with 
> Xfce as well.

Well, it happens that GNOME is quite popular, so I guess I'm not the
only one with this problem. :P

Thanks for your reaction, though.

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