Bug#616174: lprng: Why the war between CUPS and lpr*? I hate having to re-install lpr*.

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

Incoming from Craig Small:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:51:00PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> > I would really appreciate it if you would institute an
> > /etc/default/print which would specify "this system's" preferred
> > printing system, and serve as a "Dammit! don't fsck with it!" for all
> > other programs.  PLEASE!!!
> 
> It's much more complicated than that (which is why alternatives won't
> work either) because you have to have the right set of printer clients
> working with the right daemon.

That's just wrong.  Anything that wants to print should just print to
the system print daemon.  It should not expect to find its preferred
print daemon waiting for it.  That's not how *nix is supposed to work.


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