From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 11 9:33:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E560237B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:33:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B0143E3B for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:33:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (alane@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8BGWWkZ058296; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:32:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8BGWVqk058245; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:32:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:32:31 -0400 From: Alan E To: Chuck Robey Cc: chuckr@chuckr.org, FreeBSD Ports List Subject: Re: FreeBSD cups ports Message-ID: <20020911163230.GA51741@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Reply-To: alane@geeksrus.net References: <20020911113149.H36470-100000@bowie.torrentnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020911113149.H36470-100000@bowie.torrentnet.com> X-message-flag: Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." I'll ask it about Exchange next. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:46:14AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >Anyhow, to go further, the cups-pstoraster program is based upon >a terribly old version of ghostscript. Now, I'll admit that I >haven't finished learning all I need to know about this, but from >what I read so far, I find that there is pretty miserable support >for the HP deskjets there: no color and no use of any duplexers. >In fact, it seems that none of the suuported printers from >cups-pstoraster support any color printing at all. I'm afraid you're incorrect in your assumptions about how cups works. cups-pstoraster provides absolutely no printer drivers whatsoever. it only knows about 1 output format: the neutral, intermediate, raster format that is then converted to the printer's language. For this reason, you cannot replace pstoraster with another version of ghostscript. espgs (in /usr/local/bin) has the "cups" output driver (and that's *all* it has). >My comment is that there is no mention of the fact that it's >possible (and seems pretty desirable) to replace cups-pstoraster It is neither possible nor desirable to replace pstoraster. This statment was made based based on a false assumption. >Can I suggest that one of two modifications be made? One >suggestion might be a comment detailing this info in a pkg-descr >file. Another would be breaking the depends link in cups-lpr, >and instead printing out a comment detailing the dependency, and >showing the available choices. May I suggest that you understand how something works before you proceed to criticize it and tell me how to change it? No changes of the nature you request will be made, as they would be incorrect. No patches breaking the dependency relationships will be accepted. No patches to change the components in pstoraster will be accepted, either. -- Alan Eldridge Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message