[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#484043: Bug#484043: hplip-gui: description incorrect, package does not contain any graphical utilities

[Mark Purcell]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > If they want the full gui interface. The -gui package ensures the depends
> > and menu entries are correct.
>
> Hm, that looks a bit weird to me, sorry. Why are the tools with the gui
> dependencies not in hplip-gui (e.g. hp-systray)?

Hi Michael,

Some of the hplip apps can be run in either a non-gui mode (batch) 
[hp-sendfax -n, hp-fab -i] or a gui mode.

However some of the newer apps are gui only:
. hp-systray, hp-print, hp-toolbox

While the bulk are CLI only:
. hp-align, hp-check, hp-clean, hp-colorcal, hp-info, ...

hp-systray is actually only a fairly recent addition to the package, whilst 
the -gui package has been around for a while.  So the heritage has been 
towards not bringing in the -qt3 depends for the bulk of the packages, unless 
the -gui is specifically wanted.

> I'd even go so for and argue, that this violates the policy, as you
> install software without the proper dependencies.
> Example:
> hplip installed (but hplip-gui not) => non-functioning hp-systray.

It does also seem to be causing some confusion amongst other users, so it may 
make better sense to include hp-systray and others in the -gui package and 
then things will be a little more sensible.

Mark
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