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Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:45:46 -0500
From:      Christopher Masto <chris@masto.com>
To:        Thomas Yengst <yengst@photon.com>
Cc:        jah4007@cs.rit.edu, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: cups-1.1.10.1
Message-ID:  <20011030194546.A1633@masto.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BDF3BF6.456B7252@photon.com>
References:  <3BDF3BF6.456B7252@photon.com>

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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 03:47:02PM -0800, Thomas Yengst wrote:
> Perhaps a small nit, but cups installs a new lpr in /usr/local/bin. At
> least in my environment, /usr/local/bin/ is parsed before /usr/bin/,
> which means "lpr" is called from the cups package before the system
> version of lpr. The cups lpr creates really strange errors like:
> 
> % ls | lpr
> lpr: error - no default destination available.
> 
> % ls | lpr -Php5
> lpr: unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable
> 
> cups is a dependency for a couple of other packages, so the unsuspecting
> user could install it without knowing that he could change his print
> environment.

Worse than that, someone who uses LPRng (and depends on it for his
enterprise-wide printing) could install KDE and find all of the LPRng
binaries have been overwritten.
-- 
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, What
should be the reward of such sacrifices? ... If ye love wealth better
than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest
of freedom -- go from us in peace.  Crouch down and lick the hands which
feed you.  May your chains sit lightly upon you." -- Samuel Adams, 1776

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