On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 16:21:22 +0100 Geoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided it was Gentoo or LFS and I actually > installed Gentoo first. I could see all the advantages, yet the very > convenience of e-builds again left me feeling that I was not fully in > control and would not learn as much as I wanted. Also, at that time, > there seemed to a couple of issues with Gentoo - the one that springs > to mind was CUPS, which I could not get going and one of the CUPS > gurus was saying loud and long that the e-build was defective.
There was a time about 6-8 months ago when CUPS first began screwing around with Ghostscript (providing their own modifications) that I could not get CUPS to work at all even on my plain-vanilla Laserjet. This is not a gentoo problem. I reverted to the older LPR mechanisms for a couple of months, then emerged CUPS and friends again, and now it works. There are currently new versions of CUPS et al ebuilds, but I wouldn't touch these with a fork until they've aged somewhat. Once burned; twice shy. Sometimes even the competent folks at gentoo can't cope with whatever the CUPS folks have screwed up. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
