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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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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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I don't remember it was ever like that. It has always be a small |
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daemon with XML configuration files. |
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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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You can use the web interface (I have never needed it), but the |
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configuration files are XML files, if I remember correctly. |
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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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That's also my experience. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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