How to remove or not install CUPS? (standard install)

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On Thursday 19 March 2020 03:22:03 am Snidely Whiplash wrote:

> I might well be the only person here that doesn't have CUPS.

You’re not the only one.  The maintainer of CUPS (Apple employee) proposed 
several years back to remove, in 2020, all existing CUPS code that supports 
any ‘not-new’ printer.  He basically ignored anyone who disagreed with him 
and presented rebuttals and arguments ‘for’ that were smoke and mirrors.  (My 
interpretation, you’ll need to check the support queue yourself.  But when 
the maintainer states that “Common” doesn’t mean “common” it’s pretty safe to 
say the handwriting is on the wall.  Yes, unless he deleted it since, that 
what he wrote, and it’s also when I gave up.)

My last interaction with this CUPS issue was in ~2018 when my previously 
working under CUPS printer stopped working and that support queue/post was 
what I was ultimately pointed at to ‘help’ me.  Blatantly, from my 
perspective, CUPS is completely useless, and will be more so after that 
change is made, so...

Q1:  Is there a way to not install CUPS during a standard install of TDE?

Why waste the space and CPU cycles...

Q2:  Anyone have a recommendation for a CUPS replacement?

There’s nothing wrong with my 7 year old printer (which I now have to send 
files to a windows box to print...).

Thanks All,
Michael

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