Re: [debian-printing] Packaging of vendor PPD files.
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 19:41 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> I was thinking that if the printing packages (CUPS etc.) want to
> provide a symlink to the PPDs, they will need to create a symlink /to/
> somewhere, otherwise danglink symlinks will be created which might
> cause problems. A base/common package can provide an empty
> /usr/share/ppd to which they can link.
Ah, yes of course. That package should probably be named ppd-common
then.
> This is a separate issue from a ppd-all, which would install all ppds.
> (I'm unsure how useful this would be--I only use a single PPD for my
> Epson C60; all the rest are just taking up disk space.)
Well, it could be useful if you want your system to be "user-friendly"
and show all possible drivers in CUPS's driver selection dialogue. But
you're quite right in that it wastes disc space. I'm not very
interested in this package myself so if there's not much interest from
other people then we don't really have to do this.
> No. I'll subscribe now.
OK.
--
Pelle
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