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by mikec3010 2860 days ago
I learned this the hard way when I realized CUPS (printing services) is a dependency on almost any major desktop app. I thought "I don't own a printer, probably will never need one, let's remove this superfluous printer software" only to find it's so ingrained in applications it may as well be a part of the OS. In all fairness, it is convenient to be able to print to pdf sometimes