cups-pdf not installed by default, why?

[Fernando Cassia]

Ever since I started using Linux (around Y2K, Caldera 2.3) the first
thing I do is install a 'print to pdf' solution.
Ever since I started using Fedora (FC6) the solution is to install 'cups-pdf'.

So if cups-pdf is only 47 KB big, and has no other dependencies (other
than cups, which is installed by default), then why on Earth isn't it
included in the LiveCD?

Booting from LiveCD and being able to print to pdf (for instance,
content one sees on the web and wants to mail it to someone else while
testing how well Fedora works), would be a big plus, if you ask me.

So, what is the official sanctioned, polite way to get things like
these accomplished in future Fedora releases?

FC

[Reindl Harald]

Am 24.04.2013 09:50, schrieb Fernando Cassia:
> Ever since I started using Linux (around Y2K, Caldera 2.3) the first
> thing I do is install a 'print to pdf' solution.
> Ever since I started using Fedora (FC6) the solution is to install 'cups-pdf'

why should it be installed as DEFAULT?

Firefox: print -> print to file -> mozilla.pdf
Libreoffice -> Native save as pdf support

so no, this is nothing everybody needs and things
which only few users are REALLY need should not
be default

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Fernando Cassia  wrote:
> So, what is the official sanctioned, polite way to get things like
> these accomplished in future Fedora releases?

In general,  post to fedora devel list and file a RFE against comps
component in bugzilla

Rahul