From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 30 16:46: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wensleydale.netmonger.net (wensleydale.netmonger.net [167.206.208.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B1237B406 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:46:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from dna.masto.com (ool-18b9169a.dyn.optonline.net [24.185.22.154]) (AUTH: LOGIN chris@retardix.com, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,168bits,DES-CBC3-SHA) by wensleydale.netmonger.net with esmtp; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:45:48 -0500 Received: (from chris@localhost) by dna.masto.com (8.11.5/8.11.4) id f9V0jk301645; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:45:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@masto.com) X-Authentication-Warning: dna.masto.com: chris set sender to chris@masto.com using -f Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:45:46 -0500 From: Christopher Masto To: Thomas Yengst Cc: jah4007@cs.rit.edu, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: cups-1.1.10.1 Message-ID: <20011030194546.A1633@masto.com> References: <3BDF3BF6.456B7252@photon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BDF3BF6.456B7252@photon.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 03:47:02PM -0800, Thomas Yengst wrote: > Perhaps a small nit, but cups installs a new lpr in /usr/local/bin. At > least in my environment, /usr/local/bin/ is parsed before /usr/bin/, > which means "lpr" is called from the cups package before the system > version of lpr. The cups lpr creates really strange errors like: > > % ls | lpr > lpr: error - no default destination available. > > % ls | lpr -Php5 > lpr: unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable > > cups is a dependency for a couple of other packages, so the unsuspecting > user could install it without knowing that he could change his print > environment. Worse than that, someone who uses LPRng (and depends on it for his enterprise-wide printing) could install KDE and find all of the LPRng binaries have been overwritten. -- "Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, What should be the reward of such sacrifices? ... If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom -- go from us in peace. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you." -- Samuel Adams, 1776 CB461C61 8AFC E3A8 7CE5 9023 B35D C26A D849 1F6E CB46 1C61 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message