Monday, October 30, 2017

Re: CUPS and AVAHI (bloatware)

Patch:

add "--disable-avahi --disable-dbus" to configure.

I hope the package maintainers will consider the opportunity to make their task easier, by applying the above and thus removing a shitload of dependencies that are both functionally unnecessary and a security hazard.

End-of-thread.

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On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Rupert Gallagher <ruga@protonmail.com> wrote:

> It is well known that cups does not need avahi.
>
> Avahi is an option, it requires dbus, which requires X11. If you have a server with limited resources and without X11, you cannot install the present cups package.
>
> Please remove cups's dependency on avahi.

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