Re: cups drivers

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

"Cam Ellison" <camellison@dccnet.com> writes:
> I just downloaded and installed it.  It depends on foomatic-bin, and
> so this (along with a number of other packages got dowloaded and
> installed, too.
> 
> I didn't see that message.
> 
> * Gary Hennigan (glhenni@sandia.gov) wrote:
[snip]
> > I believe cupsomatic-ppd has been superseded by the foomatic-bin and
> > foomatic-db packages. From my testing distribution:
> > 
> >         cupsomatic-ppd
> > 
> >         [snip] 
> >         This package is kept to help upgrading.  For new installations
> >         please try foomatic-bin plus foomatic-db first.

It's in the package description. I don't think it hurts anything, it's
just redundant. I don't have it and my CUPS system works perfectly.

Gary