Bug#106448: dvips printing directly using lpr by default is bad.

[Viral <viral@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:56:58AM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
> Viral writes:
>  > dvips prints directly using lpr. This is different from the older behaviour
>  > of print to file, which is a sane default. Its very inconvenient to run
>  > dvips without -o and then run to the printer.
>  > 
>  > The option in config.ps 'o |lpr' should be commented out.
>  > 
> 
> Sigh! We had that discussion before. Our policy is to have the same
> configuration as in *standard* upstream teTeX. Printing directly to
> the printer is what is the default and this is also properly
> documented. 

I thought as much, that this would have been discussed before. I couldn't
find a reference in the bugs history for the package though. I guess I
looked hastily.

Would it be possible to forward this upstream and get the defaults changed ?
How about a postinst option ?

viral

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