Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item preceding net-print/cups-1.6 stabilization
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 21:46:50
Message-Id: 201306292348.02885.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item preceding net-print/cups-1.6 stabilization by Luca Barbato
1 Am Samstag, 29. Juni 2013, 21:41:30 schrieb Luca Barbato:
2 > On 06/29/2013 12:03 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
3 > > script to your default runlevel). By default cups-browsed uses the
4 >
5 > basically the functionality got split in a stand alone daemon?
6
7 Basically the functionality got dropped by Apple (cups upstream) in favour of
8 zeroconf, and re-implemented in an extra package maintained at the Linux
9 Foundation.
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11 Other stuff moved that way as well, e.g. the serial and parallel port backends
12 are not in cups proper anymore, as well as the filters for direct printing of
13 image formats or the Perl and PHP bindings. We (as everyone else in the Linux
14 world) pull in cups-filters as a PDEPEND of cups now, so nothing changes in
15 effect- which is why this all need not be mentioned in the newsitem.
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20 Andreas K. Huettel
21 Gentoo Linux developer
22 dilfridge@g.o
23 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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