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Date:      Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:03:34 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Satoshi TAOKA <taoka@infonets.hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/print Makefile ports/print/pips-sc480 Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr
Message-ID:  <20011117170334.C95629@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011108095631J.taoka@infonets.hiroshima-u.ac.jp>; from taoka@infonets.hiroshima-u.ac.jp on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:56:31AM %2B0900
References:  <200111071755.fA7HtGH45299@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011107123409.C45824@xor.obsecurity.org> <20011108095631J.taoka@infonets.hiroshima-u.ac.jp>

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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:56:31AM +0900, Satoshi TAOKA wrote:
>=20
> > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 09:55:16AM -0800, Satoshi Taoka wrote:
> > > taoka       2001/11/07 09:55:16 PST
> > >=3D20
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     print                Makefile=3D20
> > >   Added files:
> > >     print/pips-sc480     Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr=3D20
> > >   Log:
> > >   Photo Image Print System for Linux --- EPSON Stylus SC40
> >=20
> > Do these really have to be separate ports?
>=20
> I think do.
>=20
> First the above message "EPSON Stylus SC40" in Log is wrong.
> This port is for "EPSON Stylus SC480".
>=20
> Each names of the ports came from printer names (e.g.
> Photo Image Print System for linux --- epson Stylus SC480
> is abbreviated to pips-sc480).
>=20
> Each of the printer drivers pips* and bjfilter* is for a EPSON injet
> printer and a Canon bubble jet print, respectively.
>=20
> And then its size is more than 1 MB.=20
> So total size of these drivers for each vendors is too large to
> collect (in the case of EPSON, the size is more than 30MB).
>=20
> These were distributed from the vendors and a part of source codes
> (which is concerned with patents) is not open.
> So we cannot modify the codes to reduce the size.

Yes, I understand this, but since there are potentially dozens or
hundreds of these near-identical ports it seems like they should be
collapsed into something simpler.

Kris

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