From: "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:46:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1315341984.3853.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110906185725.GG9867@acm.acm>
On Tuesday, September 6 at 18:57 (+0000), Alan Mackenzie said:
> The support for lpr exists. It's being removed, for some reason.
> Given
> that printing works by constructing a postscript equivalent of the
> thing
> being printed, just how difficult can it be to squirt this postscript
> down lpr rather than the cups equivalent? How long does it take to
> write
> a C++ `if' statement?
The latest lprng available in portage was released in 2004. The latest
version of lprng released was released in 2010 but isn't even in
portage... There is a bump request, but it was created 2 years ago and
so far no takers (and no CC's). My guess is that ratio of the the
demand for the packages vs. willing maintainers is close to nil and that
"lprng" is no longer considered "ng".
As far as the simple "if" statement. If it were that simple you could
just do it yourself ;-)
>
> > And again, it's Open Source. If there is enough demand, someone will
> > write support for other printing systems. Just don't assume that any
> > project (being LibreOffice or Gentoo) need to support your choices
> > besides the most used one.
>
> Again the code already exists, it's merely a matter of not destroying
> it.
It's also a matter of maintaining it. When code changes around it,
someone has to go in and fix that part of the code and verify that it
still "works". Chances are there's no one doing that, probably because
most people have moved to cups).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-06 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-05 21:00 [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Graham Murray
2011-09-05 21:16 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-09-05 21:34 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-05 22:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-05 23:07 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-06 1:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 2:03 ` Brennan Shacklett
2011-09-06 9:12 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-06 10:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-06 11:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-06 11:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-07 7:56 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-09-07 9:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-06 20:27 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-06 22:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-06 11:25 ` Stroller
2011-09-06 13:20 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-06 15:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-06 16:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-09-06 16:17 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 16:20 ` Dale
2011-09-06 21:05 ` Grant Edwards
2011-09-06 21:54 ` Dale
2011-09-06 22:35 ` Hartmut Figge
2011-09-06 23:34 ` Dale
2011-09-06 16:59 ` David W Noon
2011-09-06 15:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 15:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 2:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-09-06 14:16 ` Dale
2011-09-06 15:57 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 16:16 ` Dale
2011-09-06 16:28 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 16:28 ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-06 16:45 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-06 19:21 ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-06 16:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 17:02 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-06 17:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 18:22 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 18:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 19:16 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-09-06 19:20 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 19:20 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 20:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 19:21 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-06 19:29 ` James Broadhead
2011-09-06 20:46 ` Albert W. Hopkins [this message]
2011-09-06 18:23 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-06 18:43 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 16:54 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 16:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 17:03 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 17:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 18:18 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 21:12 ` Grant Edwards
2011-09-06 21:24 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-06 21:34 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 21:26 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 21:35 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 21:52 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-09-06 22:30 ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-06 22:37 ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-06 22:48 ` Big Firefox (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?) Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 22:39 ` [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Hartmut Figge
2011-09-06 23:31 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-09-06 23:56 ` Dale
2011-09-07 0:09 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-07 0:12 ` Hartmut Figge
2011-09-06 22:43 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 22:58 ` Brennan Shacklett
2011-09-06 22:59 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 22:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-11 12:55 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-11 13:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-11 13:32 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-11 20:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-11 21:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-06 18:40 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 19:19 ` pk
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