Where are "cups-drivers"?

T. Ribbrock emgaron at gmx.net
Tue Dec 23 23:07:41 UTC 2003


On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 03:54:07AM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 06:43:32PM +0100, Dario Lesca wrote:

> > Ok, thanks. But:
> > why in fedora there is not a cups-driver-.x.x.x.noarch.rpm ?
> > is not better to use localhost:631 for configure cups?

> The recommended interface is redhat-config-printer, unless you have
> specific needs not provided by it.

IMO, a good reason not to use redhat-config-printer is cross-platform
compatibility - the CUPS web interface works the same on all Linux
distros and can be used on other Unices as well. In a mixed environment,
this can be of great help.

Cheerio,

Thomas
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