>>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] Gustavo> Having seen the code for the beast, I don't know if it does the Gustavo> Right Thing. It uses the 'print' alternative to find out what Gustavo> spooling system is being used. So if /usr/bin/print points to Gustavo> /usr/bin/lpr, the currently used daemon is lprng, if it points Gustavo> to /usr/bin/lp, it is using cups (I'm not very familiar with Gustavo> printing systems, though, so I may be wrong with the names and Gustavo> all that). Which is sort of stupid, because if you have cupsys-bsd installed, you get /usr/bin/lpr too. And someone could make /etc/alternatives/print point to that. There must be some better way of detecting which system is being used. e.g. checking the presence of /etc/cups Is it just me, or is this the wrong way to use alternatives? lpr and lp have very different command line syntaxes. Especially for important things like selecting which printer to print to. Something like that shouldn't be handled by alternatives. Gustavo> It would not be a problem if we could only have one spooling Gustavo> daemon at a time, but that does not seem to be the case for Gustavo> Debian. I see cupsys conflicts with newer versions of lprng, Gustavo> but it will allow lpr to be installed. Eh. If you have more than one spooling daemon installed, then it's not clear what the tool should do. Better to make a config file that says which system to configure. Or just configure all of them. Besides, everyone should be using CUPS anyways, right? ;-) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
