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 1R0y5e-0005tI-2b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:01:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F92E21C1D9; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3998121C1C2 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:59:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so3151300ewy.40 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:59:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=R0H503ah0aH5uhXuOkzysZ+rVqK2zs6V6E/sQA1n8hk=; b=I2nJiNwPTcjjdxZZnae0ZM4NBQgCOFoxC59PDvgRgY+VJpD7L116M8uSBQjA5mh98y kFAqazcn5c0dNvoVXdkDer4Wkor7mszcl+rbfuLg/+Hc1Y+FTHcqHgkBbHu4+DcOSgBS MGdrtfh1g9z+NEgEcFWLiMEgtWhTM56Whsk/M= 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 Received: by 10.216.71.76 with SMTP id q54mr5052690wed.83.1315324781262; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.39.140 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 08:59:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9B39665D-9010-41DC-B5C3-A259E741F498@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <87ehzuiu1y.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <4E65405E.8020809@wonkology.org> <20110906015104.GB2510@acm.acm> <20110906111208.393cc39d@weird.wonkology.org> <9B39665D-9010-41DC-B5C3-A259E741F498@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:59:41 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4cfd69a644154797e14070a8a62c2db1 On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Stroller w= rote: > > On 6 September 2011, at 10:12, Alex Schuster wrote: >> ... >>> Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, >>> its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration. =C2=A0Su= rely >>> I'm not going to be faced by the choice of abandoning libreoffice or >>> using cups? >> >> ... >> I never liked CUPS, but then, at least there is some interface >> to configure its options. I don't do much printing anyway, so I can live >> with that. Well, seems I have to. > > There's something about the *idea* of CUPS that I think I disliked at one= time. > > Isn't CUPS really bug and bloaty and horrible? I don't remember it was ever like that. It has always be a small daemon with XML configuration files. > It has it's own web-interface, which one doesn't seem able to disable - w= hy can't I just configure text files? You can use the web interface (I have never needed it), but the configuration files are XML files, if I remember correctly. > When I actually installed CUPS, it worked perfectly almost straight out o= f the box. Probably less effort and more reliable than printing on any othe= r o/s I've used. That's also my experience. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico