Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

[Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de>]

Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 17:55:54 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> 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 <acm@muc.de> 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 <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> > This is rather odd.  For the longest, every time I had a cups
> > >> > update, I had to delete my printers then add them back again.
> > >> >  It would not print 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
> > >> printer
> > >> on and plug it into my PC, and then spend 25 minutes trying to
> > >> make it
> > >> work with CUPS again.
> > > 
> > > I also print infrequently.  I turn my printer on, and it simply
> > > works,
> > > straight away (after warming up; it's a laser printer).
> > > 
> > > However, I use lprng, not cups.  It's good that we have a choice
> > > over
> > > what software we use, isn't it?  ;-(
> > 
> > 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.

If it's no big deal, why don't you provide patches to LibreOffice?

> > 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.

lprng-ipp seems to implement that madness.

Michael