On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 03:02:59AM +0000, James wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7 <at> gmx.de> writes: > > > > I am trying to set up an HP LaserJet 1000 printer with foo2zjs. I had been > > using hplip in the past (which did work), but for several (mostly non- > > techical) reasons, I don’t want to use that. I was happy with foo2zjs back > > in the day when it was still “stable” in portage. > > cups + hplip is pretty robust. I can't quell my curiousity as to > why you would not want to use that solution, paticualrly for an > HP printer?
Mostly because I want a minimal system. I have cups already which KDE can use, I don’t need (or want) another tool that does the same job and that has a lot of GUI stuff that my printer doesn’t support anyway (scanners and such). Furthermore, it installs a tool which I don’t need and pollutes my tray and which has no off-switch. Tries to deactivate it in the past had not succeeded (as I said, non-technical reasons). Also, with every update it wants to download the proprietary plugin anew (which I had trouble with in the past b/c I did offline updates) or else no printo worko. Lastly, this plugin installation doesn’t work if system python was not version 2, so every time I had to eselect python 2, install hplip, and switch back again. You may certainly call me backward minded, but it worked in the past[TM] without hplip, and I would like that again. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. There are those and those. But there are more of those than those.
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