commit: 5f4b2f96819a82f3713e78bb72438eeda80ce8f2 Author: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93 <AT> gmail <DOT> com> AuthorDate: Mon Dec 4 06:09:54 2023 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Mon Dec 18 03:35:32 2023 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=5f4b2f96
2023-12-17-cups-filters.en.txt: add news item Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/914586 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/813507 Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93 <AT> gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo.org> .../2023-12-17-cups-filters.en.txt | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) diff --git a/2023-12-17-cups-filters/2023-12-17-cups-filters.en.txt b/2023-12-17-cups-filters/2023-12-17-cups-filters.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec88925 --- /dev/null +++ b/2023-12-17-cups-filters/2023-12-17-cups-filters.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Title: CUPS no longer directly depends on its filters +Author: Eli Schwartz <eschwart...@gmail.com> +Posted: 2023-11-20 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: >=net-print/cups-2.4.7-r2 + +Reasons +======= + +Historically, net-print/cups has both depended on and been a dependency of +net-print/cups-filters. The latter is required for usability of a CUPS +printing setup, but also must build against the former's libraries. This +results in an ugly dependency cycle, and forcing the entire CUPS printing +setup wherever USE=cups is enabled on a framework. + +Current upstream work on CUPS has focused on modularizing the codebase. There +are now several packages, and there will be more in the future. Installing +net-print/cups-filters is no longer sufficient to ensure all components are +installed. + +In the future, when CUPS v3 is released, filters will be exclusive to legacy +printers, and largely replaced with IPP Everywhere.[1] + +A more future-proof way to install a CUPS production printing setup is needed. + +User Action Required +======= + +cups-filters is required for current versions of CUPS. To prevent depcleaning +if you are a CUPS user (and it was not installed just as a dependency for +something else): + + emerge net-print/cups-meta + +If cups-browsed support is desired, add the following package.use: + + net-print/cups-meta browsed + + +[1] https://openprinting.github.io/current/#the-new-architecture-for-printing-and-scanning
