Hi,

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:47:17 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:

>Hey all, 
>
>1) Putting printer drivers into "net-print" is silly.
>
>Something that converts format a to device-specific format b has
>absolutely nothing to do with network.
>So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware
>drivers, (or "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make sense.

Like I said in IRC, I'm all in favor of this. "media-print" seems
reasonable as I don't consider printing related packages being
system-relevant (and thus no sys-print).

>2) After introducing that, however, "net-print" becomes nearly empty.
>
>On a quick glance, the only *network*-specific packages in there are
>cups and lprng. Maybe one or two more which I dont recognize.
>
>So move cups and lprng to "net-misc" and drop "net-print"? 
>Or move them to new "sys-print" as well?
>
>What do you think?
>
>Cheers, 
>Andreas
>

Cheers
Lars

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