Re: [Gnome-print] Re: [Gimp-print-devel] An introduction to gnome-print (fwd)

[Robert L Krawitz <rlk alum mit edu>]

   Cc: lauris@ariman.ee, gimp-print-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	   gnome-print@helixcode.com
   From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@helixcode.com>
   Date: 31 May 2000 16:04:19 -0400

   >    Mos of which are programs. gnome-libs package from Red Hat 6.1
   >    is less than megabyte. To /usr/lib it installs less than 1.8MB
   >    of files.  Aside standard stuff (X etc.) it requires esd,
   >    gnome-audio, xpm, jpeg and png libraries. Not very much.
   > 
   > It requires SOUND support?

   It is fully optional.  I have my own GNOME without sound, because it
   pisses me off.  

Why on earth do I even *want* sound and X *installed* on a dedicated
print server, already?  It's just that many more things to go wrong.

   > MOST people?  Where I happen to work (a major system vendor), I
   > haven't heard Gtk+ mentioned even once.

   I think you are just out of the loop ;-)

Maybe.  I happen to work on high end servers (take a guess at the kind
of scale -- processors, memory, disk -- I'm talking about; I'm curious
what you think of in that context).

   > Wait a minute -- there IS a free Postscript renderer around.  It's
   > called Ghostscript.  What am I missing here?

   maybe the problem is that any solution around it really sucks?

Why?