On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 08:40:46PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hi again Josh, > > Le vendredi 23 juillet 2010 13:31:29 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud, vous avez écrit : > > Le dimanche 4 juillet 2010 22:03:54, vous avez écrit : > > > I do not want to have to run foomatic-gui or any foomatic-specific > > > package; I simply want to select a printer model in either the GNOME > > > system-config-printer tool or the CUPS web interface, and have it work. > > > > Doesn't it work ? I can add printers trough both the CUPS web interface and > > trough system-config-printer-kde (based on system-config-printer). > > > > What exactly doesn't work ? > > I just discussed this case with the foomatic upstream developer: > > > For CUPS users foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine need to be installed in > > order to get all Foomatic PPDs auto-generated on the fly. So a transitional > > package should pull foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine. physical PPDs are > > not > > needed when working with CUPS 1.2.x or newer. > > So if you use cups it should work since Lenny. > > I just committed the re-add of foomatic-filters-ppds as dummy package: > > http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/foomatic-db- > engine.git;a=commitdiff;h=bbdfca7b174c53b8c6ea42e1eae2b37b4df14b4a > > Would that be okay for you ?
I had no idea that CUPS could automatically generate PPDs on demand; very nice. The transitional package you describe should ease upgrades from Lenny with foomatic-filters-ppds installed. And I'll fix my own personal metapackages to depend on foomatic-db-engine. :) Thanks! - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
