It seems like we should have OpenSLP 2.0.0
Possibly. Do you have a patch for updating the package? :)
Perhaps a different year for me, and you aleady have lots on your list.
and D-Bus 1.7.0
No. From the homepage:
The current stable branch is D-Bus 1.6.x. This is the recommended version for most purposes. The current development branch is D-Bus 1.7.x, which will lead to a 1.8.x stable branch in future.
We usually avoid development versions in pkgsrc.
Yes- the label is "stable" but every day I receive a message from package vulnerabilities about dbus. It would seem that if it was fixed then that would also go back to dbus 1.6 but I am not sure.
One more question, though- if things like D-Bus 1.7 were included in something like /usr/pkgsrc/devel, would it or would it not lead to more secure versions of cups?
I am certainly willing to return to more primitive methods or printing - but folks not on this or a similar list will not. Darrel