Re: Please add new PPD/driver directories for LSB 3.2 to your distribution

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> In case someone was not addressed directly.

I will now open wishlist bugs against the relevant packages:

> 1. Create directories
> mkdir -p /opt/share/ppd
> mkdir -p /usr/local/share/ppd
> mkdir -p /usr/lib/printdriver
> mkdir -p /opt/lib/printdriver
> mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/printdriver

base-files, target Etch

> 2, Set symlinks for CUPS to find the PPDs:
> ln -s /usr/local/share/ppd /usr/share/ppd/1-local-admin
> ln -s /opt/share/ppd /usr/share/ppd/2-third-party

CUPS, target Etch

> Driver packages coming with the disttro can be changed to use 
> /usr/share/ppd and /usr/lib/printdriver, but this is not required. The 
> new directories are to give a standard location so that 
> distribution-independent driver packaging gets possible.

I won't file wishlist bugs for this yet, and unless linuxprinting.org PPDs
start pointing to /usr/lib/printdriver, it is going to wait for Lenny.

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh