[cups] /usr/share/cups

[Michael Sweet]

Kai,

You really can't expect to remove major portions of the CUPS install and expect it to continue working.

The "examples" and "ipptool" directories in /usr/share/cups can probably be safely removed, but the rest are needed to support filters and drivers used for printing.


> On Sep 22, 2015, at 9:02 AM, Kai Hendry <hendry at webconverger.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I remove the 8MB of /usr/share/cups hoping to slim down the distro I
> maintain:
> https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/commit/9350da3246b1fb7115310b55abd3e2c079f460a1
> 
> After testing it several times successfully with the cups-pdf package, I
> rolled out the change for my users too.
> 
> However I had one user complaining that he had "computers are printing a
> lot of paper with symbol chars" after the change.
> 
> Is that possible? Why is that happening?
> 
> Kind regards,
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair