On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:07:47 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > You stipulate physical printing. Does that mean you want to retain th > > ability to print to PDF or PS? If so, you would still need at least > > Ghostscript and possibly CUPS too, although you should be able to get > > rid of the PPD packages.
> ...my "I am no native english speaker" hit me again it seems... ;) > > With "physical printing" I meant the step which "put it on > paper"...or in other words: Everything which involves the device > "printer" (...hrrmmm...NOT anything in /dev/....the thing on the > desktop, which has 9 needles in the past...;) 8) ) > > For creating PDF I use either TeX and friends. Or gimp or > similiar (Image-/Graphicsmagick). I would think USE="-cups" would help, but some packages do have a hard dependency on printing, which has been the subject of rants on this list in the past. -- Neil Bothwick "Of course, I could switch back to Windows. At least there, if I have a problem, I don't suffer under the illusion that I could ever fix it." -
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