From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 2 10:24:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F5F16A421 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:24:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D5B43D46 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 10:24:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z31so143810nzd for ; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 03:24:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pHkPuXttSiKlIVRVh61Snx9+n++hgljiMLVARJexo2rQwXE98JS+TzTHeJ0vQNfaXhVI50IaWuJknpN/L0jGHKeZHluLCG4I0Qw0vrOVFjlgTYJp/9zW8nBj6ajeghmiK0GBDutKWTEVTfW6HklsJuJrYiO/pLPYgFQw3KbEH9s= Received: by 10.36.222.3 with SMTP id u3mr5164923nzg; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 03:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.20.34 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 03:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 14:24:40 +0400 From: "Andrew P." To: Eric Pretorious In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <433321D7.6060900@bsdcertification.com> Cc: mailinglists@bsdcertification.com, lofi@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Andrew P." List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 10:24:41 -0000 On 10/1/05, Eric Pretorious wrote: > >From: Jared Barneck > >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!!! > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE= ! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > 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.