[KLUG Members] re: CUPS

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> After lots of investigating and a bit of harsh language, I figured it 
> out.  Apparently I deleted a 32-bit compatibility library by accident, 
> and the printer driver needed it.  Would have been nice of it to tell me 
> something was wrong, rather than telling me the print job completed!  

Yep, the current version of CUPS doesn't have a mechanism for filters
and backends to return state information to the server; the next version
of CUPS has a notification back-channel.

> I guess I can take parallel printer support back out of the kernel now.

Whats the rationale?  PP support is hardly fringe,  and its presence
probably costs you less than a page.