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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print Makefile ports/print/pips-sc480
 Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr
From: Satoshi TAOKA <taoka@infonets.hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
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> On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 09:55:16AM -0800, Satoshi Taoka wrote:
> > taoka       2001/11/07 09:55:16 PST
> >=20
> >   Modified files:
> >     print                Makefile=20
> >   Added files:
> >     print/pips-sc480     Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr=20
> >   Log:
> >   Photo Image Print System for Linux --- EPSON Stylus SC40
> 
> Do these really have to be separate ports?

I think do.

First the above message "EPSON Stylus SC40" in Log is wrong.
This port is for "EPSON Stylus SC480".

Each names of the ports came from printer names (e.g.
Photo Image Print System for linux --- epson Stylus SC480
is abbreviated to pips-sc480).

Each of the printer drivers pips* and bjfilter* is for a EPSON injet
printer and a Canon bubble jet print, respectively.

And then its size is more than 1 MB. 
So total size of these drivers for each vendors is too large to
collect (in the case of EPSON, the size is more than 30MB).

These were distributed from the vendors and a part of source codes
(which is concerned with patents) is not open.
So we cannot modify the codes to reduce the size.

-Satoshi TAOKA

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