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On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 03:02:59AM +0000, James wrote: |
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> Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7 <at> gmx.de> writes: |
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> > I am trying to set up an HP LaserJet 1000 printer with foo2zjs. I had been |
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> > using hplip in the past (which did work), but for several (mostly non- |
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> > techical) reasons, I don’t want to use that. I was happy with foo2zjs back |
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> > in the day when it was still “stable” in portage. |
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> cups + hplip is pretty robust. I can't quell my curiousity as to |
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> why you would not want to use that solution, paticualrly for an |
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> HP printer? |
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Mostly because I want a minimal system. I have cups already which KDE can |
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use, I don’t need (or want) another tool that does the same job and that has |
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a lot of GUI stuff that my printer doesn’t support anyway (scanners and |
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such). |
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Furthermore, it installs a tool which I don’t need and pollutes my tray and |
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which has no off-switch. Tries to deactivate it in the past had not |
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succeeded (as I said, non-technical reasons). |
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Also, with every update it wants to download the proprietary plugin anew |
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(which I had trouble with in the past b/c I did offline updates) or else no |
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printo worko. |
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Lastly, this plugin installation doesn’t work if system python was not |
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version 2, so every time I had to eselect python 2, install hplip, and |
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switch back again. |
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You may certainly call me backward minded, but it worked in the past[TM] |
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without hplip, and I would like that again. |
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Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ |
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There are those and those. But there are more of those than those. |
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