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 1R10LJ-00051W-O4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:25:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFA3A21C1E4; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE5121C2CB for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:22:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so6446256wyg.40 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:22:44 -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=xg80D4I1abtryyHG9NP6brquJ28g9/wJPKLI2I84WtE=; b=WOq4XZ3dGvbL5IsYzM4g21x4nd56EkUDTPULJkUfAzaT4RgtUcAYTOA2Im80jmepHo kH60bp8UZ2CBpwzH8dwW/G3667cJjdx5U8WHP+M1WoKBkoVUQjjvrqBsB3YasoN2BDsr JDGhrWIQtDkmnFixYmyD5V5pYnMmzs131sFB4= 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 q54mr5192883wed.83.1315333364479; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.39.140 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:22:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110906175554.GE9867@acm.acm> References: <87ehzuiu1y.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <4E65405E.8020809@wonkology.org> <4E664740.80406@gmail.com> <20110906164938.GC9867@acm.acm> <20110906175554.GE9867@acm.acm> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:22:44 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 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: 85757e8839c7f04b1cd567e0bb2fb160 On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > 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. =C2=A0For the longest, every time I had a cups = update, I had >> >> > to delete my printers then add them back again. =C2=A0It 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 printe= r >> >> on and plug it into my PC, and then spend 25 minutes trying to make i= t >> >> work with CUPS again. > >> > I also print infrequently. =C2=A0I turn my printer on, and it simply w= orks, >> > straight away (after warming up; it's a laser printer). > >> > However, I use lprng, not cups. =C2=A0It's good that we have a choice = over >> > what software we use, isn't it? =C2=A0;-( > >> 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? =C2=A0Firefox, for example, manages lprng just fine. = =C2=A0It's > really not a big deal supporting an extra spooler interface, particularly > 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. 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. 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