[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#454117: hpijs: depends on hplip

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 03 Dec 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Since foomatic-filters-ppds depends on hpijs-ppds, please stop this

And there lies the problem.

hpijs-ppds are useless without hpijs, and therefore at least a recommends is
needed from hpijs-ppds to hpijs.

As for hpijs *needing* hplip, I will leave that to the new active hplip
maintainer to reply :-)

> madness. The only printing daemon on the system should be cupsd, and it
> shouldn't install another daemon which is useful for a very small
> minority of users.

IMO, HP printers are a *vast majority* of the users who need hpijs and
hpijs-ppds, and that's how the thing needs to be optimized.  I hope that
doesn't have to mean bringing in HPLIP, but if it does, then that's it.

We can break that dep chain elsewhere (e.g. foomatic-filters-ppds) if
needed.

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