On 11/12/2013 23:04, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 11 Dec 2013 16:52:49 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Wednesday 11 Dec 2013 18:39:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> $ equery depends print-manager >>> >>> * These packages depend on print-manager: >>> kde-base/kdeutils-meta-4.11.4 (cups ? >>> >>>> =kde-base/print-manager-4.11.4:4[aqua=]) >>> >>> Set USE="-cups" to fix >> >> Confirmed. I didn't have kdeutils-meta installed. Installing it pulls in 10 >> packages with USE=-cups, 21 without. I'm installing it now. >> >> Of course I want other programs to be able to print, so I only set -cups >> against kdeutils-meta. > > Let me get this right, if I set 'kde-base/kdeutils-meta -cups' I will still > be > able to print from kde applications? >
I believe so. As far as I could ever tell, KDE's print manager was just a configurator front end to CUPS, so you can configure CUPS directly instead. For many years, that's exactly what I did. The print manager was masked for years as "broken by design" and at one point wasn't even installed by default at all. So I got used to hitting port 631 on localhost in a browser. I can't see any reason why it still isn't like that -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
