On Tuesday, September 6 at 18:57 (+0000), Alan Mackenzie said:
> The support for lpr exists. It's being removed, for some reason. > Given > that printing works by constructing a postscript equivalent of the > thing > being printed, just how difficult can it be to squirt this postscript > down lpr rather than the cups equivalent? How long does it take to > write > a C++ `if' statement? The latest lprng available in portage was released in 2004. The latest version of lprng released was released in 2010 but isn't even in portage... There is a bump request, but it was created 2 years ago and so far no takers (and no CC's). My guess is that ratio of the the demand for the packages vs. willing maintainers is close to nil and that "lprng" is no longer considered "ng". As far as the simple "if" statement. If it were that simple you could just do it yourself ;-) > > > And again, it's Open Source. If there is enough demand, someone will > > write support for other printing systems. Just don't assume that any > > project (being LibreOffice or Gentoo) need to support your choices > > besides the most used one. > > Again the code already exists, it's merely a matter of not destroying > it. It's also a matter of maintaining it. When code changes around it, someone has to go in and fix that part of the code and verify that it still "works". Chances are there's no one doing that, probably because most people have moved to cups).
