From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2674986.sdC8SStjOO@pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110906174848.GD9867@acm.acm>
Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 17:48:49 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> Hi, Michael.
>
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:03:19PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 16:43:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> > > Is that right? How about it being saner to conform to standardised
> > > interfaces, protocols and formats?
> >
> > How about IPP?
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol
> >
> > Oh wait... that's what cups is using.
>
> Ah yes, a standard. So we have the choice between all the IPP
> implementations. That's cups and, ... err - is there another one?
Well, there's lprng-ipp. Not in portage though
http://jointlab.upol.cz/~michale/projects/lprng-ipp/
For other OSes there are other implementations available.
> But why should I have to use an over the top bloated "Internet" protocol?
> I've got one single printer on the end of a USB cable. I want a simple
> spooler, as simple as possible and not simpler.
>
> > > No, the sane alternative is to use the `lpr' command, possibly
> > > augmented by special arguments for particular spoolers, but always
> > > having a fallback to standard `lpr'. That way, everybody's happy.
> > > Even me. ;-)>
> > How about the lpr command provided by cups?
> > Does it not work for you?
>
> I believe it did work for me for the short time I had cups installed.
> More pertinent is, why won't the lpr command work for LibreOffice?
Because LibreOffice uses ipp for printing.
Michael
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Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-05 21:00 [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Graham Murray
2011-09-05 21:16 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-09-05 21:34 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-05 22:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-05 23:07 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-06 1:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 2:03 ` Brennan Shacklett
2011-09-06 9:12 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-06 10:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-06 11:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-06 11:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-07 7:56 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-09-07 9:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-06 20:27 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-06 22:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-06 11:25 ` Stroller
2011-09-06 13:20 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-06 15:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-06 16:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-09-06 16:17 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 16:20 ` Dale
2011-09-06 21:05 ` Grant Edwards
2011-09-06 21:54 ` Dale
2011-09-06 22:35 ` Hartmut Figge
2011-09-06 23:34 ` Dale
2011-09-06 16:59 ` David W Noon
2011-09-06 15:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 15:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 2:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-09-06 14:16 ` Dale
2011-09-06 15:57 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 16:16 ` Dale
2011-09-06 16:28 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 16:28 ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-06 16:45 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-06 19:21 ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-06 16:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 17:02 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-06 17:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 18:22 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 18:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 19:16 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-09-06 19:20 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 19:20 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 20:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 19:21 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-06 19:29 ` James Broadhead
2011-09-06 20:46 ` Albert W. Hopkins
2011-09-06 18:23 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-06 18:43 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 16:54 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 16:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 17:03 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 17:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-06 18:18 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 21:12 ` Grant Edwards
2011-09-06 21:24 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-06 21:34 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 21:26 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-09-06 21:35 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 21:52 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-09-06 22:30 ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-06 22:37 ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-06 22:48 ` Big Firefox (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?) Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 22:39 ` [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Hartmut Figge
2011-09-06 23:31 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-09-06 23:56 ` Dale
2011-09-07 0:09 ` Alex Schuster
2011-09-07 0:12 ` Hartmut Figge
2011-09-06 22:43 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 22:58 ` Brennan Shacklett
2011-09-06 22:59 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-06 22:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-11 12:55 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-11 13:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-11 13:32 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-11 20:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-11 21:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-06 18:40 ` Michael Schreckenbauer [this message]
2011-09-06 19:19 ` pk
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