On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 6 September 2011, at 10:12, Alex Schuster wrote: >> ... >>> Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, >>> its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration. Surely >>> I'm not going to be faced by the choice of abandoning libreoffice or >>> using cups? >> >> ... >> I never liked CUPS, but then, at least there is some interface >> to configure its options. I don't do much printing anyway, so I can live >> with that. Well, seems I have to. > > There's something about the *idea* of CUPS that I think I disliked at one > time. > > Isn't CUPS really bug and bloaty and horrible?
I don't remember it was ever like that. It has always be a small daemon with XML configuration files. > It has it's own web-interface, which one doesn't seem able to disable - why > can't I just configure text files? You can use the web interface (I have never needed it), but the configuration files are XML files, if I remember correctly. > When I actually installed CUPS, it worked perfectly almost straight out of > the box. Probably less effort and more reliable than printing on any other > o/s I've used. That's also my experience. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
