Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
> Hi, Michael.
>
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 01:02:59PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
>> > Hi, Paul.
>
>> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:28:16AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>> >> > This is rather odd.  For the longest, every time I had a cups update, I had
>> >> > to delete my printers then add them back again.  It would not print until I
>> >> > did so.
>
>> >> I have to do that every time I plug my printer in...
>
>> >> I print so infrequently, every time I want to print I turn the printer
>> >> on and plug it into my PC, and then spend 25 minutes trying to make it
>> >> work with CUPS again.
>
>> > I also print infrequently.  I turn my printer on, and it simply works,
>> > straight away (after warming up; it's a laser printer).
>
>> > However, I use lprng, not cups.  It's good that we have a choice over
>> > what software we use, isn't it?  ;-(
>
>> It could be that IPP is just becoming the preferred protocol, and other
>> print queue managing protocols are going the way of Gopher.
>
> Preferred by whom?  Firefox, for example, manages lprng just fine.  It's
> really not a big deal supporting an extra spooler interface, particularly
> a simple one.

Because, as "simple" as it could be, it's another one. Big projects
need to support CUPS, because they need to work for everyone (or as
many as possible). It makes no sense *at all* to support more printing
systems.

And again, it's Open Source. If there is enough demand, someone will
write support for other printing systems. Just don't assume that any
project (being LibreOffice or Gentoo) need to support your choices
besides the most used one.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México