[gentoo-dev] gimp-print + cups problem

[Ingo Krabbe]

Hi,

I recently had some problems with the gimp-print-cups package, that
discovered a wrong path we go with cups here, and I would like to push a
little discussion about that topic, hoping to find some interested ears.

I have a gentoo-1.4-rc1 installed and tried to get my Lexmark Z53
working in a German environment, which means that I use DIN A4 paper.

On my last gentoo (1.2) I had a lprng installed which I configured via
hard printcap entries to use the native lexmark drivers.  As I was ready
with cups installation and configured my printer know I detected a
preconfigured Lexmark Z53 driver from gimp-print (which was accidently
installed by some dependency). 

Printing with that I found that I couldn't change the papersize to A4,
though they are A4 descriptions in the PPD file.

A short talk on gimp-print-devel revealed that the problem should be
gone with gimp-print-4.2.4-rc1, which is the last (official) archive of
gimp-print.

This really solved the problem, but I liked to understand that deeper,
since I like to understand lower CUPS configurations so I might bind the
official lexmark driver to cups someday.

Updating my installation to gimp-print-cups, that is based on a (so
called) gimp-print-4.3.0 archive broke the Paperchanging ability again.

So lets start discussion:

	1. Where is gimp-print-4.3.0 from since the gimp-print home page
	doesn't seem to know from this super new package ?

	2. It is quite sad that after the death of lpr/lpd with
	printcap, wich died because of configuration problems the new
	printing standard cups seems to go in the same direction of
	unconfigurability.  I would like to clean up the CUPS/PPD
	system, but I cannot do so with some wizardry help.

Thanks for your audience, in hope for some smart dialogs.

BYE INGO


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