Downgrade "cups" to Recommends:
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xubuntu-desktop
Echo of bug 302272.
When setting up Ubuntu desktop systems in a corporate/
Why? Ease of administration. The CUPS server is a fairly complex piece of software in its own right, and having one instance of it in a centrally-managed location is complicated enough without having basically the same piece of software running on every desktop. (This was made especially clear to me when I investigated how one sets the default print queue. There are potentially THREE places where this can be done: (1) on the client, in /etc/cups/
Please downgrade "cups" to a recommendation of the -desktop package, so that the latter can be installed (and retained) sans CUPS server.
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 302272, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.