Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:41:14 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>, <dwcjr@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CUPS support can be unconditional Message-ID: <20020111163402.W80091-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020111214452.L25678@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:19:09PM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote: > > I'd actually like to propose another compromise to this issue. If people > > agree with cups-base bloat is okay, then we need a pkg-message telling > > users that if they _really_ want to CUPS printing support in Samba, they > > need to build cups-lpr. > > That's what Alan suggested in his patch, isn't it? Alan's patch just mentioned making CUPS unconditional. I think the pkg-message blurb is really important. > > > I still think that by only partially enabling CUPS support in Samba, > > you'll be confusing people, but by having a pkg-message, you'll help to > > avert some questions and confusion. > > Well it depends - if, by linking Samba with CUPS, Samba's default for the > print system is changed to CUPS, that would be confusing, because CUPS wouldn't > be installed fully. Ideally, Samba would always default to using stock BSD lpr, > and by tweaking smb.conf it could be made to use CUPS. However, this needs to > be tested. Unfortunately, I don't have time this weekend :( I'll try it out > monday if you guys don't beat me to it. I did some testing. If you just install cups-base, and link Samba to it, SWAT and testparm (with the smb.conf.default copied to smb.conf) make the default printing = bsd. This is good. If you set it to cups, printing doesn't work since it still tries to use the BSD lpr. Even setting ``print command = '' didn't fix things. So, it seems nothing is broken if cups-base is linked in, except CUPS printing won't work. Joe > > --Stijn > > -- > What would this sentence be like if it weren't self-referential? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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