KDE4 doesn't need a no-cups flavor. It just needs to have the dependency on CUPS removed, and leave it up to the end user whether or not to install CUPS. Isn't CUPS stand-alone? What's all this crap you are COMPILING into everything else from CUPS, anyway, that we would need a special flavor just to get rid of it?
________________________________ From: "i...@darwinsys.com" <i...@darwinsys.com> To: John Doe <jl2...@yahoo.com>; "ports@openbsd.org" <ports@openbsd.org> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:04 AM Subject: Re: I really, really hate CUPS If you don't like the way a port works, feel free to submit a patch that makes it better, without breaking it for others based on your personal biases... At the risk of restating the obvious, submit a patch that create a no-cups flavor, don't just torch out what you don't want in there. ----- Reply message ----- From: "John Doe" <jl2...@yahoo.com> To: "ports@openbsd.org" <ports@openbsd.org> Subject: I really, really hate CUPS Date: Fri, Jan 27, 2012 11:48 I was just trying to comple KDE4, and .... My feeling is that CUPS simply has no place on an OpenBSD system. I simply don't have room on my sub for a clunky, obese user interface that runs on its own unpatched, unchrooted fork of Apache 1 series as root, just to print something. This is a false dependency; don't make me use it if I don't want it. OpenBSD's core lpd(8) works just fine as long as we can get the right filters to handle a ppd file. KDE can print to OpenBSD's lpd(8). And if we really need PostgreSQL -- I'm not exactly sure how that got pulled in -- then let's use it for *everything* that needs a database on the whole system rather than all these "lightweight" miscellaneous databases that tend to float around the system for web browsers and so on. Moving on, after compiling this stuff all night, I'm missing fam>=0.0, so back at it again .... Any thoughts/opinions?
