Beastie said:
What on Earth are you talking about?
Find me one instance of cups
in here.
[cmd=>]pkg_info -R /var/db/pkg/cups-client-1.3.10_4[/cmd]
Code:
Information for cups-client-1.3.10_4:
Required by:
aterm-1.0.1_3
cups-base-1.3.10_4
cups-image-1.3.10_4
driconf-0.9.1_2
farsight2-0.0.15
firefox-3.5.3,1
freeciv-2.1.9_1
gconf2-2.26.2_1
gegl-0.0.22_6
ggz-gtk-client-0.0.14.1_2
ghostscript8-8.64_6
gimp-2.6.6,2
gimp-app-2.6.6_3,1
gnash-0.8.5_3
gnome-icon-theme-2.26.0_2
gnome-keyring-2.26.3_1
gnome-mount-0.8_3
gnome-vfs-2.24.1_1
gnustep-back-0.16.0_1
gnustep-gui-0.16.0_1
gsbench-0.5.2_2
gstreamer-plugins-gnomevfs-0.10.24,3
gtk-2.16.6
gtk-engines2-2.18.2_1
gvfs-1.2.3_2
libafterimage-1.18_1
libbonoboui-2.24.1_1
libglade2-2.6.4_1
libgnome-2.26.0_1
libgnomecanvas-2.26.0_1
libgnomeui-2.24.1_1
libgsf-1.14.15_1
libnotify-0.4.5_1
libopenraw-0.0.8_1
libpurple-2.6.2
librsvg2-2.26.0_1
libsoup-2.26.3_2
mencoder-0.99.11_4
midori-0.1.2_1
mirage-0.9.3
mplayer-0.99.11_14
netsurf-1.1_3
openoffice.org-3.1.1
pidgin-2.6.2
policykit-gnome-0.9.2_2
poppler-gtk-0.10.6_1
py26-gimp-app-2.6.6_1
py26-gnome-2.26.1_1
py26-gstreamer-0.10.16
py26-gtk-2.14.1_1
scribus-1.3.3.13_1
webkit-gtk2-1.0.1_8
wxgtk2-common-2.8.10_1
wxgtk2-unicode-2.8.10_1
xscreensaver-5.08_1
Mind, many years ago I tried (oh, Lord, I tried) to keep cups off of my system with custom build flags and such by the thousands (okay, 9 or 10 at most), because, you know, I just don't use printers. I don't have a printer. I don't print stuff out. (I also don't own a watch or carry a mobile phone, and they are related, but it's not important right now)
It wasn't worth it. Everything wants cups. It sneaks in: they change the make flags to fool you into installing cups. I installed cups and I still don't know why everything wants it. The only time I have used printing in almost ten years is to print a test page on a network printer to see if it would work on Windows NT4 under qemu, and that was three years ago.
I suppose dbus and hal are the same story. And sometimes people wonder why I think Stallman and Gates are the same person.