Mick wrote:
> On Friday 09 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On Friday 09 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
>>>> See other thread on this very subject yesterday and today for
>>>> details:
>>>>
>>>> emerge -avC <all foomatic ebuilds>
>>>> emerge -av  <all foomatic ebuilds>
>>> Yes; that worked.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for patiently answering this question -- sigh --
>>> again!
>>>
>>> (Wish I had parsed it more carefully!!)
>> It gets easier round about the 42nd time. At least that's how it worked
>> for me :-)
>
> Is foomatic needed for cups to work? I have been carrying it around for the
> last few years, but I was not sure if it is needed.

I don't pretend to know how it all worked before and now, but in my case
I had all of the foomatic stuff stuff installed. After reading Alan's
advice, I decided to unmerge all of them and then let emerge tell me
what it needed - which is now only net-print/foomatic-filters. Works fine.

(I'm running an HP printer, hplp-2.8.2, and cups-1.3.7-r1.)

HTH
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