Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

2007-09-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:39:57 -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote: [...] > lprng lets me set up my own filters. The only filters I need are > easy: pnm2ppa and a little something that prepends some postscript > that tells my HP 4050 JetDirect to be in duplex mode. > > One of the simple tasks that I

Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

2007-09-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/05/2007 09:39 AM, Steve Newcomb wrote: [...] One of the simple tasks that I have never succeeded in getting Cupsys to do, even after many hours of fiddling, was to describe the same printer hardware in two ways, one simplex and one duplex. [...] I had an unfortunate run-in also where I co

Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

2007-09-05 Thread Steve Newcomb
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 09/04/2007 01:35 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote: > > I did an experiment that makes a liar out of me: I installed > > lenny and BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE I removed cupsys. Bafflingly, > > it worked fine. > > > > How did cupsys get installed? I doubt that it

Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

2007-09-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/04/2007 01:35 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote: I did an experiment that makes a liar out of me: I installed lenny and BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE I removed cupsys. Bafflingly, it worked fine. How did cupsys get installed? I doubt that it was installed by default, because I have Etch and no cups

Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys

2007-09-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/04/2007 12:10 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote: I am a long-time Debian user and sysadmin and I'm very frustrated these days. There seems no way out of my problem, other than to re-install the entire OS from scratch and then simply *not* attempt to replace cupsys, which still doesn't work. I have