Bug#382182: gnome-cups-manager: No way to disable gnome-cups-icon

[Guus Sliepen]

Package: gnome-cups-manager
Version: 0.31-2
Severity: normal

It appears that there is no way to disable gnome-cups-icon, short of
overwriting the binary with /bin/false or something equally drastic. As
I am on a network with a central CUPS server that provides hundreds of
printers, which gnome-cups-icon polls approximately every second, this
gives rise to a significant constant network load, and lots of icons in
the message area of printers I am not interested in.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.3
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-cups-manager depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.17-1      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.12.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.14.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.14.0-3      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.3.6-19      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.2.0-5       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcupsys2                 1.2.2-1       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libfontconfig1             2.3.2-7       generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4                2.14.0-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11                1.2.2-3       LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.0-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.10.3-3      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0          0.4.9-1       GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                2.14.1-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.14.0-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomecups1.0-1          0.2.2-5       GNOME library for CUPS interaction
ii  libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a     0.31-2        UI extensions to libgnomecups
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.14.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             2.14.2-1      GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgnutls13                1.4.1-1       the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0              1.2-1         library for common error values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.8.18-7      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                    1:1.0.0-3     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.0-2    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.12.3-1+b1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                   1.10-3        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                     1:1.0.0-4     X11 Session Management library
ii  libtasn1-3                 0.3.5-2       Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.0-8     X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                1.1.5.2-5     X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                   1:1.0.0-4     X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                 1:3.0.1.2-4   X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                     1:1.0.0-5     X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1               1:1.0.1-4     X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.26.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.1.0.2-4   X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.0.2-4   X Rendering Extension client libra

Versions of packages gnome-cups-manager recommends:
ii  gksu                          1.9.3-1    graphical frontend to su

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