Em Wednesday 14 March 2012, Daniel Nicoletti escreveu: > 2012/3/14 Kai-Uwe Behrmann <k...@gmx.de>: > > CUPS is a cross platform solution. It works with colour management on osX > > fine. IMO that recommendation on Debian has to do with colord in Gnome > > and that colord needs compiled in support inside CUPS. No more no less. > > This sentence is hard to read but Recommends in Debian means recommends, > it is not required to run, so no there is no linking, no link by CUPS to > colord and no link by colord to CUPS. All DBus magic.
Debian applies a patch to add colord support to cups, that is what Kai- Uwe is talking about. Cups itself does not require colord, so it cannot be used in favor of colord. > >> Notice that colord allows components to use it without linking it in at > >> startup using the dbus interface for instance. > > > > That is non relevant to the fact, that CUPS vendor colour management > > works since years and without colord. > > It is indeed relevant because now we have a central place to configure it. As long as you patch cups and all other applications to use. Oyranos is also a central place to do color management as far as I know, this argument is valid for both. -- Lamarque V. Souza KDE's Network Management maintainer http://planetkde.org/pt-br