Russ Allbery wrote: > Also, do we really need *any* printing system as priority: standard? It's > not clear to me that printing is still really part of a standard Unix > installation, even for desktop users (and it definitely isn't for > servers). >
I'd guess most Desktop installations have a printing system installed, just because you need it if you want to print. Cups works very well for that these days as it is able to detect the printers which are shared by other cups installations in the network. If you're not 'living' in a network with an administrated cups server, adding/configuring printers is - for example - possible from the KDE Control Center. You can still configure cups on http://localhost:631 - but as far as I can tell there's no need to use the webinterface anymore. For servers a printing system doesn't make sense, especially if it does more than listening on a local port. As far as I know the default setting of cups is to broadcast, looking for other printers in all networks. I'd definitely want to avoid that on a server. Not sure if anybody is still using the old BSD printing stuff - at least I can't see any reason why it should have a higher priority than optional. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
