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 1R0zz1-0001N8-Qy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:02:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FFF121C2E9; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:02:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98C921C2E0 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:59:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21697 invoked by uid 3782); 6 Sep 2011 17:59:32 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951A7AA.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.167.170]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:59:32 +0200 Received: (qmail 1416 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Sep 2011 17:55:54 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:55:54 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Message-ID: <20110906175554.GE9867@acm.acm> References: <87ehzuiu1y.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <4E65405E.8020809@wonkology.org> <4E664740.80406@gmail.com> <20110906164938.GC9867@acm.acm> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 348f90abd775d411a0cb19a5b4362664 Hi, Michael. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 01:02:59PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Paul. > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:28:16AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale wrote: > >> > This is rather odd. =A0For the longest, every time I had a cups up= date, I had > >> > to delete my printers then add them back again. =A0It would not pr= int until I > >> > did so. > >> I have to do that every time I plug my printer in... > >> I print so infrequently, every time I want to print I turn the print= er > >> on and plug it into my PC, and then spend 25 minutes trying to make = it > >> work with CUPS again. > > I also print infrequently. =A0I turn my printer on, and it simply wor= ks, > > straight away (after warming up; it's a laser printer). > > However, I use lprng, not cups. =A0It's good that we have a choice ov= er > > what software we use, isn't it? =A0;-( > It could be that IPP is just becoming the preferred protocol, and other > print queue managing protocols are going the way of Gopher. Preferred by whom? Firefox, for example, manages lprng just fine. It's really not a big deal supporting an extra spooler interface, particularly a simple one. > Is there a simple IPP daemon which could wrap lprng? Adding a layer of complexity to a daemon to cope with added complexity in a client program? I doubt it. It sounds like madness. > --=20 > :wq --=20 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).