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 1R10e6-00081k-4O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:45:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 670A621C12C; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7F0E21C319 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:43:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Sep 2011 18:43:37 -0000 Received: from p5B0843EA.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO pc.localnet) [91.8.67.234] by mail.gmx.net (mp069) with SMTP; 06 Sep 2011 20:43:37 +0200 X-Authenticated: #13997268 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18dchNLTFoderEnOo+aRMLI60Frn4UtteVDtQBz/E GHG4Xkhy64wlnG From: Michael Schreckenbauer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:43:40 +0200 Message-ID: <2429312.F9bYamR7a4@pc> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110906175554.GE9867@acm.acm> References: <87ehzuiu1y.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <20110906175554.GE9867@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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 781a0e68749d4cd7e09a9954e4d9e04a 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 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. 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