On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/11/3 William Immendorf <[email protected]>: >>> Having said that, I agree that gs tests for cups. >> Agreed. Do you want to edit that in? > > I'm not editing at the moment because I don't have a 6.5 > or current system. Also, I haven't looked to see what cups > brings to ghostscript. GPL Ghostscript is basicaly AFL Ghostscript + ESP Ghostscript, so GPL Ghostscript uses CUPS in the same way as ESP does. >>> But, does anybody need foomatic ? I used to build it, >>> until Alexander asked if I really needed it - testing >>> showed it wasn't doing anything useful for me. All my >>> printing is driven by gutenprint. >> I do. It's needed for my printer, a HP Deskjet D1520. Even if I >> replace it with a Espon Artisan 710 (which uses Gutenprint, I think), >> I think I still need foomatic and hpjis for my Officejet 65000. > > OK, clearly people using HP inkjets do need foomatic. > Thanks for clarifying that. Thanks.
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