Re: CUPS

[Dominik Kubla <kubla@sciobyte.de>]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:44:25AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:48:54PM +0300, Ari Makela wrote:
> > No, it can be done by hand. With cups one really has to do one's
> > RTFM. If one does, it'll work fine.
> 
> I used to tell everyone we need no fancy GUI for configuration as our
> postinst scripts take care of all that. All you need to know is
> dpkg-reconfigure if you want to change anything.
> 
> That probably won't work with cups.

Oh that will work fine with CUPS. But i am not convinced that you want
this.  How to administer printers with System V commands is pretty much
standard in the Unix world.  dpkg-reconfigure is not.

> > IMAO: development list shouldn't be a help desk. And thus maybe I
> > shouldn't be writing this email.
> 
> Or else you should read my original mail. :-)
> 
> The problem is not RTFM since all works well with the default ppds, but a)
> the interaction with cupsomatic-ppd and b) the missing configuration in
> postints. WHere does this belong if not into -devel?

BTS?  No serious.  I think you were right to post it here [ as if my
opinion mattered ;-) ]

Dominik
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