Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:38:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006302027320.4585-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <20000630161354.C11113@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:18:34AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > Also, LPRng requires gmake. Going to be a nice bit of work, bmaking that > > fellow. > > Don't worry, I can bmake anything written in ASM/C/C++.* Oh, I knew that; I was just pointing out that it wasn't without it's complications. I saw that post of, uh, I think it was Will who intimated that apsfilter was huge next to LPRng (the opposite may be more likely to be true). I was trying to goad someone who's installed LPRng to say how it goes about printing gifs, ascii, jpegs, etc, on a postscript printer. If LPRng itself calls out to ghostscript, then the claim about LPRng being smaller is very false. I won't install LPRng, I like my apsfilter install, and don't want to mess with it (it was kinda difficult getting my set of mismatched ghostscript drivers for my HP printer working at optimum, and I won't upset the applecart now). Hasn't anyone installed it, and is willing to discuss how it works for them? I haven't *seen* that much talked about bsd-licensed version, tho. When that shows up, I stop opposing things. I'm not against LPRng itself, actually, just bringing in non-bsd licensed stuff without a sufficiently strong reason, which I don't think we have. If Chuck Paterson had the BSD for BSDi, I bet someone just has to be serious in asking the LPRng authors about 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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