Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:52:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006271344380.318-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <200006271608.JAA32987@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > Nope. Your suggestion is an adjunct to making software changeable, and > > something like it has already been done for sendmail/postfix, but it > > doesn't answer the question at all, merely makes changing things > > easier. The question is, I remind you, whether or not to remove lpd and > > replace it with lprng, now HOW to replace it. We can pretty much figure > > out how. > > Calm down. ?? I'm not angry, what gave you that idea? I was saying that we don't have to replace anything. Both > can live in FreeBSD side-by-side. The only downside to this is > additional work required to maintain both and the additional space > required. Hence the word compromise. You suggested a method of allowing print to be set more easily, you didn't suggest that BOTH get kept in FreeBSD's base system. I think the chance that we'd have two different versions of print software pretty small; the anti-bloatists would go berserk. They'd be right, too, when it would be pretty simple to just choose. If we did keep 2, next week we'd be asked to bring in a third. Heck, personally, I like apsfilter. No, adding a second only postpones the problem, it's not a solution. Making it easier to choose, maybe, but choosing 2? I don't think so. A solution in the vein you're talking about might put the print tools into a separately installed piece, one that would allow (require?) a user to choose their poison (to coin a phrase). I might get along easier with that one, but the folks who want to make install simpler the easier, they'd probably veto it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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