From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R12YS-0007RG-Ok for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:47:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8062621C0E7; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 20:47:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3590321C02B for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 20:46:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0F624EE7 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:46:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.160]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:46:24 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to :references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :mime-version; s=smtpout; bh=BP6cNovHAOW48PIs6EWIUaSkXZU=; b=K9b nx00Sa7UX5K4V2sxKCj434akd1Abj/04Tv8HaTmGK5knhzx6WAozcKo30x3nwLWO QfH9oSigEThc0M7rOJOaGiPTUgq15JRgvTaOGfhXWZGNyC+K51c5lNZl8Khgfl7Q cKjLohSodLFqceaP4AorL7EqnMIOuqFCf17Edapo= X-Sasl-enc: qdwdQTWKhSjOFA9e47zBAHqzh6etayp1sLmwwwMW77jT 1315341984 Received: from [192.168.0.114] (48-8-255-199.rev.celito.net [199.255.8.48]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 16E58700162 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:46:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? From: "Albert W. Hopkins" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:46:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110906185725.GG9867@acm.acm> References: <87ehzuiu1y.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <4E65405E.8020809@wonkology.org> <4E664740.80406@gmail.com> <20110906164938.GC9867@acm.acm> <20110906175554.GE9867@acm.acm> <20110906185725.GG9867@acm.acm> Face: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1315341984.3853.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e556d673c59152dd9b50df655d4e6238 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).