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On 6 September 2011, at 10:12, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>> Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, |
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>> its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration. Surely |
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>> I'm not going to be faced by the choice of abandoning libreoffice or |
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>> using cups? |
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> I never liked CUPS, but then, at least there is some interface |
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> to configure its options. I don't do much printing anyway, so I can live |
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> with that. Well, seems I have to. |
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There's something about the *idea* of CUPS that I think I disliked at one time. |
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Isn't CUPS really bug and bloaty and horrible? |
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It has it's own web-interface, which one doesn't seem able to disable - why can't I just configure text files? |
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When I actually installed CUPS, it worked perfectly almost straight out of the box. Probably less effort and more reliable than printing on any other o/s I've used. |
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Stroller. |
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