Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:39:12 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - License Issues Message-ID: <396BCC40.B144C513@vangelderen.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007110924190.2296-100000@jasper.nighttide.net> <82343.963323518@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> <20000711092233.F26861@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: [...] > > 3) Many folks who need LPRng will have to install it from the ports to > > get all of its functionality. > > Then how about we rip LPR from the base system and let people install the > printing system they need from ports? Yay! I think this is the correct approach for most software that isn't universally needed and for which 2 or more competing versions exist. Now putting the money where my mouth is I added support for this to to 4-STABLE sysinstall in about 30 minutes, akin to the desktop selection code that is already there. All we need is two packages named '44bsd-lpr' (following the naming convention adopted for our old csh) and 'lprNG' and sysinstall should work. I'm not going to do the packages (I lack the time and experience) but I will make proper quality patches available if there is demand for it. For now there is a proof-of-concept tar.gz at http://jeroen.vangelderen.org/FreeBSD/ . Extract in /sys/release/sysinstall && make && ./sysinstall . Cheers, Jeroen PS. I think lpr ought not be in the base system. If however we include one it should be lprNG. Our lpr is crap. -- Jeroen C. van Gelderen o _ _ _ jeroen@vangelderen.org _o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) _< \_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ (_)>(_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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