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On Wednesday 06 October 2004 09:40, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> Thus spake Gábor Farkas on Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:23:59AM CDT |
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> Printers are an Issue in Linux, and it's not just Gentoo. Eric Raymond |
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> sent a flame letter to the CUPS people a while back detailing his |
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> horror story of setting up a CUPS printer. His story was chillingly |
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> similar to my own experience. It was a nightmare! Maybe the Gentoo |
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> devs could pick up the ball and make CUPS a little easier to use. |
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The main problem with cups is the lack of "default" supported printers. |
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One needs foomatic or gimp-print-cups to add more printers. Foomatic |
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however does not by default provide all printers it knows about to cups |
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(Just a matter of generating ppd files and putting them |
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in /usr/share/cups/model). |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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