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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 06:03:46
Message-Id: 201509170703.31848.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10 by walt
1 On Thursday 17 Sep 2015 01:45:14 walt wrote:
2 > On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:22:32 +0100
3 >
4 > Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > Hi All,
6 > >
7 > > I just noticed that the driver for my old printer no longer shows up
8 > > in cups, on one of my PCs. Comparison with other PCs shows that this
9 > > one does *not* have the hpijs USE set.
10 > >
11 > > Could someone who also does not have hpijs set in their hplip tell me
12 > > if the HP DeskJet 930C selection is missing, when they load up the
13 > > GUI via https://127.0.0.1:631 and then try to modify a printer?
14 > >
15 > > Until this week there wasn't a problem with this PC so I am not sure
16 > > what changed ...
17 > >
18 > > I've set it up with DeskJet 932c for now without USE=hpijs and it
19 > > seems to work, so I am in two minds if I need hpijs or if I need to
20 > > use the 930c driver anyway.
21 >
22 > Sometime in the past few days hpijs came to my attention in a way that
23 > escapes me at the moment, but I remember being puzzled by it. What is
24 > also puzzling is that hpijs doesn't show up here in the output of eix:
25 >
26 > Installed versions: 2.0.4^t(06:49:33 AM 08/28/2015)(X acl dbus java
27 > pam python ssl systemd threads -debug -kerberos -lprng-compat -selinux
28 > -static-libs -usb -xinetd -zeroconf ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32"
29 > ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="32 64 -x32"
30 > ELIBC="-FreeBSD" LINGUAS="-ca -cs -de -es -fr -it -ja -pt_BR -ru"
31 > PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7") Homepage: http://www.cups.org/
32 > Description: The Common Unix Printing System
33 >
34 > When I run ufed, though, I do see an hpijs useflag described, because
35 > it's listed in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc (dated today).
36 > Here is a good use for the new git-based portage tree (which I'm not
37 > using yet, BTW):
38 >
39 > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/
40 >
41 > I just spent 10 minutes searching through the commits related to cups
42 > and I can't find anything about hpijs, but I know there's something
43 > strange going on with that useflag.
44
45 It is a flag for hplip rather than cups.
46 --
47 Regards,
48 Mick

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