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From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:07:05
Message-Id: 2474748.BxeZ24raHv@pc
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? by Alan Mackenzie
1 Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 16:43:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
2 > Is that right? How about it being saner to conform to standardised
3 > interfaces, protocols and formats?
4
5 How about IPP?
6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol
7
8 Oh wait... that's what cups is using.
9
10 > No, the sane alternative is to use the `lpr' command, possibly augmented
11 > by special arguments for particular spoolers, but always having a
12 > fallback to standard `lpr'. That way, everybody's happy. Even me. ;-)
13
14 How about the lpr command provided by cups?
15 Does it not work for you?
16
17 Michael

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>