Downgrade "cups" to Recommends:
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: kubuntu-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.