(In reply to comment #27)
> Wouldn't it make sense to updated the ebuild for the latest unmasked
> net-print/hplip to require cups <1.6 so that more people don't hit this, or
> if they do hit this because they have newer cups installed be notified of
> this known dependency by portage?
Mixing stable and unstable has never been supported. If cups-1.6 becomes stable then a hplip version supporting it should become stable as well.
Feel free to back-port the fix to a stable version of hplip and I will apply it.
(In reply to comment #27)
> Wouldn't it make sense to updated the ebuild for the latest unmasked
> net-print/hplip to require cups <1.6 so that more people don't hit this, or
> if they do hit this because they have newer cups installed be notified of
> this known dependency by portage?
Mixing stable and unstable has never been supported. If cups-1.6 becomes stable then a hplip version supporting it should become stable as well.
Feel free to back-port the fix to a stable version of hplip and I will apply it.