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Old 02-19-2008, 03:45 PM
+Alan Hicks+
 
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Default Re: Configuring CUPS, the Slackware way

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, Joost Kremers dared to utter,
> personally, i see no problem in putting off such a switch for a year or
> two


I don't either. I'm a happy user of LPRng. It works good, is easy to
configure (thanks to apsfilter) and has no major problems with it. I
can't see myself switching to CUPS anytime in the near future. Anything
that uses a web browser to do its configuration is, IMO, too
inflexible, poorly conceived, and prone to cause headaches when I wish
to do something the least bit out of the ordinary.

> after two years, when pat will have abandoned LPRng altogether, i will go
> and compile it myself.


Screw that! I'll make a package. :^)

> i'd say four years from now, when development of
> LPRng has stopped altogether, is early enough to start worrying. ;-)


But is it early enough yet to start making preperations to maintain the
LPRng code base yourself?

- --
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5
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