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These programs require elevated privileges to work and have not seen
regular maintenance in decades. Unless someone steps up and overhauls
them, we will have to remove them before 16.0. Drop-in replacements are
available in ports (print/cups, sysutils/LPRng).

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des requested review of this revision.Thu, Feb 19, 5:57 PM
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What's the rationale for this removal? Shall the user not be able to print?

In D55381#1266727, @fuz wrote:

What's the rationale for this removal? Shall the user not be able to print?

It's unmaintained and full of bugs, use CUPS instead.