On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 08:33:35PM +0200, Chris Halls wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:38:02PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > Does OOo link to the CUPS API via -lcups[image]? If so, all information > > that's available via a BSD command should be more easily obtainable from > > the CUPS API, since that's how the commands in cupsys-bsd get them. > > Thus, the requirement to use spadmin without cupsys-bsd is very strange; > > why they wouldn't make calls to CUPS to autodetect printers is beyond > > me. > > No, it doesn't link to CUPS directly - hopefully it will one day. > > > If OOo doesn't link in the CUPS API, then it should be pulling printer > > info by executing print programs. In that capacity, I would expect lpr > > or lprng to be equivalent to cupsys-bsd for all intents and purposes. > > Moreover, cupsys-bsd wouldn't be just recommended for printing via OOo; > > it would be required. > > Well, it's not required because the alternative way to set up printers is > via the padmin tool. This allows you to define any printer, select the > driver and enter a suitable command line to use the printer. > > lpr/lprng _is_ equivalent to cupsys-bsd from an administration point of > view; the problem is it is not obvious from a users' POV that cupsys-bsd is > a better alternative to using the padmin tool. If a user has lpr or lprng > installed, they will find that OOo finds their print queues without needing > to do anything extra. If, on the other hand, they installed cupsys but not > cupsys-bsd and they don't read the README they won't realise that there are > two ways to print (install cupsys-bsd or use oopadmin), and are most likely > to use oopadmin instead, which is much more complicated and error-prone. > The Suggests is just an extra hint from us - if they are reviewing the > Suggests for OOo and have cupsys installed they'll probably realise that the > suggested package is a good idea.
So we need conditional dependencies (of the kind, if the lpr virtual package is cups, then we depend on cupsys-bsd or something such) :)))) Friendly, Sven Luther
