On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:53:49AM +0200, Giovanni Bechis wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:55:13PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Mike Erdely wrote: > >> OK to commit? > > > > Why are ppd, xml... files installed this way? > > Couln't they use the foomatic subdirs? > > i.e. $LOCALBASE/share/foomatic/db/source/ > > > Foomatic-db is not needed
hmmm, I have not looked at the port, but on http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ I read: There are five major components to the foo2zjs printer driver. * foo2zjs - blah * foo2zjs-wrapper - a shell script (compatible with foomatic) which runs ghostscript and foo2zjs in a pipeline. * icc2ps - blah * foomatic-db - foomatic database entries which describe the supported printers and their options so that printer spoolers know how to access the printer usinf foo2zjs-wrapper. * zjsdecode - blah so, it says foomatic-db is a major component. it may not be necessary in all cases, but we are trying to make things easier for end users. IMO, it should be installing foomatic data in foomatic directories. nor cups, I think it could be better to install > the files as root:wheel under $PREFIX/share/foo2zjs and link the ppd's > directory to $LOCALBASE/share/cups/model if needed. but if foomatic directories are already linked to CUPS directories, installing these file to foomatic directories will make them usable to CUPS without any extra work. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
