Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:01:21 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> Cc: dwcjr@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Ports List <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: CUPS support can be unconditional [signing off of this one] Message-ID: <20020111145901.C80091-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020111195742.GA45830@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Alan Eldridge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:45:23PM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote: > > >I think it makes things even more confusing since CUPS printing will not > >work with just cups-base. And, when you compile with CUPS printing, Samba > >tries to enable it by default. Therefore, without cups-lpr, printing will > >be broken in CUPS by default if you just include cups-base...and do so > >unconditionally. > > Does anybody start Samba and just expect it to work with no > configuration? > > If you can print, by default, via samba and regular lpr, without ever > once running SWAT or editing smb.conf, then you've got a point, And a > very insecure samba installation by default. SWAT was the one that configured CUPS for me automatically. As soon as I installed Samba with CUPS, I went into SWAT, and _it_ added the printing entries to smb.conf for me. I guess had I gone into advanced I could have saud, "whoa! I have to do BSD printing." > > We'll just have to disagree on this. It's dwcjr@'s call. Samba and > kdelibs are the only ports that have the cups issue. I'm not likely to > budge from my position, and I doubt I can sway you from yours. Yep. But you already have one proponent it seems. I'll compromise on the PACKAGE_BUILDING, otherwise we'll have to agree to disagree :-). Joe > > -- > Alan Eldridge > Pmmfmffmmfmp mmmpppppffmpmfpmpppff PmpMpmMpp ppfppp MpfpffmppmppMmpFmmMpm > mfpmmmmmfpmpmpppff. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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