FC3 as a printserver

Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov
Fri Jan 7 13:58:32 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 03:37 -0600, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > A matter of opinion...
> > 
> > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
> > 
> > The destructive behavior of the GUI and automatic/silent rewriting
> of
> > config files make CUPS a royal PITA for non-trivial configurations.
> 
> If you don't like the way system-config-printer works, 'rpm -e' it.

Well, that's not really a great option either.  Core system tools should
strive for the "just works" gold seal.  If they are obviously short of
the mark they should be improved or replaced, not leave the user up the
proverbial creek without a [viable] paddle.

Phil





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