On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:49:37PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> writes: > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:35:15PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > >> Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> writes: > > > > that's better than the typical "cups sucks" flamewar we get... cue in > > 3..2..1.. > > > > A > > I have to admit that I am pretty much entirely ignorant concerning the > whole thing. I did read some posts a while back discussing the evil of > cups, but I think having absolutely no experience with the other > approaches I couldn't really follow the reasoning. I have little doubt > that cups is less than a wonderful tool (so many of these things are and > I still find myself fuming in hate regarding alsa from time to time) but > since up to this time I have been able to use it successfully I have had > no reason to try anything else. my dirty little secret is that I've *never* had trouble with CUPS and don't understand all the problems that people have. Some of it I think is just inertia (used lp* for a long time why should I change) which is perfectly reasonable, IMO. And I do agree with those who think that there are many printing solutions and the heavy use of cups as a dependency is not a good thing. But for me it just works. shrug. A
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