On 08/03/2012 10:42 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > As to the separate issue of using foomatic : we've managed without > it until this year. Earlier this year, someone reported that it > fixed his problem, but then more recently someone else had a cups > problem and I think eventually the fix was different. I would > prefer not to add foomatic until it can be shown to be required [ > possibly, that might mean that for certain printers it could be > required - I use an epson inkjet with gutenprint, and for me it > hasn't been necessary - long ago, I thought I would need it, but > Alexander questioned that, and was right ]. >
From my understanding, foomatic is just collection of ppd's (read: drivers) for some printers. Depending on someone's hardware - one might need it, while other not. I think it would be fair to support it, but looking at CHANGES.txt, ppd API is being deprecated, and reading that bug report, there was some talk about some other protocol that exposes printer data to CUPS, thus not needing ppd's. > In my opinion, for those of us who build from source, upgrading > cups may produce different results from a fresh install. I'll be > looking at cups-1.6 whenever I next make a fresh build, But my own > build of 1.5 is quite different from the book's (because I was not > contributing when I went to 1.5), so YMMV. Just curious, do you own USB printer? If so, do you build cups with libusb support or use usblp module. I do not understand the usblp stuff. I see many distros blacklist it or even they don't select it in their kernels in favour of libusb backend, which talks directly to usb printers. Which one would you recommend? Current instructions have libusb disabled by default with a note about usblp stuff. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
