[KLUG Members] re: CUPS

[Mike Williams]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

>>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!  
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>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.
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>>I guess I can take parallel printer support back out of the kernel now.
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>Whats the rationale?  PP support is hardly fringe,  and its presence
>probably costs you less than a page.
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I suppose I could leave it in, but on this machine a kernel recompile 
only takes about 5 minutes, and I've never had it fail..  Since 
everything on a gentoo box (with exception of a few cranky binaries like 
OpenOffice) is custom compiled, it seems like a waste to run a kernel 
that's not as optimized as the rest of it.