Re: Firefox stability?

[Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, John D. Baker wrote:
> So, firefox doesn't depend on cups and can cope without it, but will try 
> to use it if it finds it?

That's definitely how most of that cra^H^H^H uhm, stuff with GNOME hooks 
works. For whatever reason, those apps seem to cope with LPD also. Maybe 
they just fire and forget at port 515. Maybe CUPS is good enough at LPD 
emulation that is still the lingua franca.

I'm speaking from having the unfortunate experience of needing to print 
from GNOME or GNOME-tainted stuff. It seems to work fine even if I don't 
have cups installed and I'm only using LPD.

The real problem I think is more on the compilation / dependency end of 
things. Ie.. I'd imagine GNOME stuff is going to bang the table and demand 
that you have CUPS there first, required or not.

-Swift