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 <gentoo-user+bounces-127730-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1R10ua-0001q5-IX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:02:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0F8F21C341; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:02:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7AC421C0E9 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:01:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27069 invoked by uid 3782); 6 Sep 2011 19:01:04 -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 21:01:03 +0200 Received: (qmail 1711 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Sep 2011 18:57:25 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:57:25 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Message-ID: <20110906185725.GG9867@acm.acm> References: <87ehzuiu1y.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <4E65405E.8020809@wonkology.org> <j43vuj$6mk$1@dough.gmane.org> <CADPrc81MEemnh4Y5fiP7NODm-yqRVfBeHh1AKf07FUWBTSdjwQ@mail.gmail.com> <4E664740.80406@gmail.com> <CAEH5T2Ns5SB=Lg34RWdM_u=KCkpGczurGqvqOR_dwBKsMzXiiQ@mail.gmail.com> <20110906164938.GC9867@acm.acm> <CA+czFiBN8Kw=Q7_7S1s517ZGHOxnE70NcabGKq-XiX7bC-3bUw@mail.gmail.com> <20110906175554.GE9867@acm.acm> <CADPrc81Qit0a2y=yM7s10_NadNXeqSj0=yZ-WHpQQQF-C7JXgA@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> 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: <CADPrc81Qit0a2y=yM7s10_NadNXeqSj0=yZ-WHpQQQF-C7JXgA@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 05c8019b82e7086bf739da8527bddc1e Hi, Canek. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 02:22:44PM -0400, Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote: > >> > However, I use lprng, not cups. =A0It's good that we have a choice= over > >> > what software we use, isn't it? =A0;-( > >> It could be that IPP is just becoming the preferred protocol, and ot= her > >> print queue managing protocols are going the way of Gopher. > > Preferred by whom? =A0Firefox, for example, manages lprng just fine. = =A0It's > > really not a big deal supporting an extra spooler interface, particul= arly > > a simple one. > Because, as "simple" as it could be, it's another one. Big projects > need to support CUPS, because they need to work for everyone (or as > many as possible). It makes no sense *at all* to support more printing > systems. It enables more people to use it. 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? > 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. I became a user based on it supporting a standard printing system, and it's perfectly reasonable for me to expect that support to continue. > Regards. > --=20 > Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s > Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=EDa de la Computaci=F3n > Universidad Nacional Aut=F3noma de M=E9xico --=20 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).