[arch-general] system-config-printer without executable?

hollunder at gmx.at hollunder at gmx.at
Fri Apr 24 06:17:32 EDT 2009


On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:11:09 +0200
Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:48 +0200, hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:35:14 +0300
> > Samed Beyribey <ras0ir at eventualis.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Other users report to have a system-config-printer.py there but
> > > > such a file doesn't exist on my system.
> > > > 
> > > It's in system-config-printer-gnome package.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Samed.
> > 
> > How do I have to understand that?
> > System-config-printer is useless?
> > 
> > Philipp
> 
> First thing I thought was: WTF is this useless package then? Then I
> looked up the package and saw that KDE uses the scripts in this
> package for the printer administration. It's good to split it this
> way, as gnome-python is not really a dependency you want to drag into
> kde.
> 

Right. So there's no way to use this standalone?
"Pygtk CUPS Configuration" led me to believe it was possible and
there's no dependency indicating that it's useless without gnome or kde.

Regards,
Philipp


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