Re: Print Alternative

2005-01-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Qui, 2005-01-06 Ãs 23:39 -0500, Hubert Chan escreveu: > Which is sort of stupid, because if you have cupsys-bsd installed, you > get /usr/bin/lpr too. And someone could make /etc/alternatives/print > point to that. There must be some better way of detecting which system > is being used. e.g.

Re: Print Alternative

2005-01-06 Thread Hubert Chan
>>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Gustavo> Having seen the code for the beast, I don't know if it does the Gustavo> Right Thing. It uses the 'print' alternative to find out what Gustavo> spooli

Re: Print Alternative

2005-01-04 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
> point to the command used to print (ex.: /usr/bin/lpr) > Most of the packages conflict with each other and supply lpr and other > similiar binaries. You probably need to go and check what the > configuration thing actually needs. Having seen the code for the beast, I don't know

Re: Print Alternative

2005-01-04 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:05:18AM -0200, Fernanda Giroleti Weiden wrote: > So, here goes my suggestion and a request: what do you think of using > the alternatives system for printing? We could do. I'm not sure how it would all work together though, alternatives work fine with binaries but with da

Re: Print Alternative

2005-01-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Fernanda Giroleti Weiden wrote: That would ease porting this application to run on Debian. This application would add a great facility for our users since it is impossible to know what command must be used to print a document on a Debian system. Which ones don't support 'lpr' ? The LPR varients obv

Print Alternative

2005-01-02 Thread Fernanda Giroleti Weiden
Hi, I'm packaging the Printer Configuration Tool (default printer config tool on RedHat/Fedora systems) for Debian. This aplication allows users to configure printers without needing to know if they're running CUPS, LPRng or whatever. To do that, the RedHat/Fedora team is using the alternatives sys