On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:06:34 -0400 Snidely Whiplash <therealgrogan@...> wrote: > You can't completely remove CUPS on a Linux distribution, because it's a > hard dependency for a lot of things. General-purpose binary distros fold CUPS in and include support for it in everything because they want to be a "plug-and-play" experience for people who know nothing about Linux. Linux without CUPS, however, is certainly possible--the Pi3 blinking happily to itself above my desk has never had CUPS installed, because it doesn't need it in order to fulfill its role. E. Liddell