Subject: [bug#30500] [PATCH] services: cups: Add all extensions by default.

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:51:12 +0200

Dear,

What is the status of the bug #30500 [1]?  It is tagged 'moreinfo' and
now a bit old.  It is about the addition of the two packages 'escpr' and
'hplip' to the service 'cups'.

1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/30500>

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 at 18:57, [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/services/cups.scm (cups-configuration): Add all extensions by default.
>> ---
>>  gnu/services/cups.scm | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/services/cups.scm b/gnu/services/cups.scm
>> index 4c62e6a6f..4e7325a74 100644
>> --- a/gnu/services/cups.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/services/cups.scm
>> @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ programs."))
>>     (package cups)
>>     "The CUPS package.")
>>    (extensions
>> -   (package-list (list cups-filters))
>> +   (package-list (list cups-filters escpr hplip))
>
> Also ‘foomatic-filters’.
>
>>     "Drivers and other extensions to the CUPS package.")
>>    (files-configuration
>>     (files-configuration (files-configuration))
>
> I can definitely understand the usability argument.  The counter
> argument would be this:
>
> $ guix size cups-filters | tail -1
> total: 270.4 MiB
> $ guix size cups-filters escpr hplip foomatic-filters | tail -1
> total: 569.5 MiB
>
> I think carrying all this could make ‘guix system reconfigure’
> heavyweight for many—lots of unnecessary downloads/rebuilds, etc.

What people think?

All the best,
simon