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Re: rollback print/cups for pkgsrc-2014Q2?



On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 02:42:20PM -0500, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> Maybe a little bit.  But I was unable to recreate the
> auto-detection/importation of shared CUPS queues without installing
> cups-filters.  Once cups-filters (with cups-browsed) was installed,
> the workstation was able to see the queues provided by the server
> without any special configuration, just as it could with cups 1.5.
> 
> I'm rapidly reaching the conclusion that cups with-out cups filters
> is nearly useless in an environment of networked systems sharing
> a common print server.
> 
> Should we consider rolling cups-filters into cups so we keep
> functionality equivalent to cups 1.5?

I don't like that for maintenance reasons, but a meta package of
appriate name (cups-working? :) that depends on both would be ok in my
eyes.
 Thomas


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