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Date:      Sun, 2 Oct 2005 14:24:40 +0400
From:      "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To:        Eric Pretorious <epretorious@hotmail.com>
Cc:        mailinglists@bsdcertification.com, lofi@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS?
Message-ID:  <cb5206420510020324y55bd452dk5ce5c619d509e661@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BAY107-F356D847D3C7D05B6161799A48F0@phx.gbl>
References:  <433321D7.6060900@bsdcertification.com> <BAY107-F356D847D3C7D05B6161799A48F0@phx.gbl>

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On 10/1/05, Eric Pretorious <epretorious@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Jared Barneck <mailinglists@bsdcertification.com>
> >Subject: Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS?
> >Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:27:51 -0600
> >
> >Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> >
> >>On Thursday, 22. September 2005 20:42, Eric Pretorious wrote:
> >>
> >>>Thanks, Mike. I didn't have a chance to try it out: I decided to switc=
h
> >>>ack to Gentoo because of the steep learning curve that comes along wit=
h
> >>>FreeBSD's ports & packages.
> >>>
> >>>
> >Can I just say that moving back to Gentoo because of a "steep learning
> >curve" is no just ironic, but down right funny.  :-)
>
> Installing CUPS/HPIJS was as easy as...
>
> %> emerge cups ghostscript hpijs
>
> Portage automatically retrieves, compiles, and installs CUPS, GhostScript=
,
> the complete Foomatic configurator, HPIJS, etc., etc. and
> _integrates_them_all_. i.e., All of the HPIJS drivers/filters and Foomati=
c
> drivers/filters are *already* present in the web-based CUPS interface.
>
> Now *that* is what I call a relatively-flat learning curve!!!
>
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BTW, to do the same thing in FreeBSD you
type:

# portinstall cups -m 'WITH_CUPS=3Dyes' hpijs

ghostscript and all other dependencies are
installed automatically. The -m switch tells
hpijs to support cups, but if you omit it the
port tells you about it.



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