Re: [debian-printing] Packaging of vendor PPD files.

["Pedro M." <pmacv@telefonica.net>]

Kenshi Muto escribió:

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> Hi Bernd,
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> At Mon, 1 Mar 2004 00:06:08 +0100,
> Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
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> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 07:55:11AM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote:
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> > > I'd like to keep main CUPS package is same as upstream.
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> > So the real question is, why not include the vendor provided files in
> > upstream cups in the fist place. At least it should be offered to them.
> >    
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> I'm not CUPS upstream, but IMHO upstream authors don't want to have
> so many printer specific files, because their target is to create
> good printing system base (and mainly for MacOS X).
> So they looks want to delegate printer support to another softwares,
> such as foomatic or printer vendor's.
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> Thanks,
> - -- 
> Kenshi Muto
> kmuto@debian.org
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But, when I try to use foomatic in my computer the printer doesn 't 
work. I only can use the GIMP  printer files .

In any case, one could use a command (one can imagine apt-driver 
install   , i.e. apt-driver install hpdeskjet640C ) to download and 
install CUPS files in the CUPS server .

Regards.