Subject: Re: Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in January 2001
To: Bill Squier <groo@old-ones.com>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/21/2001 16:13:22
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:10:06AM -0500, Bill Squier wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:02:47AM +0000, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > The Package of the Month award goes to: cups, nominated by Bill Squier.
> > "Cups is a nice fire-and-forget printing system. I did a make
> > install, loaded cupsd and have instant access to all the printers in
> > the office with file-format conversions automatically. It supports
> > things like the System V lp(1) options, and you can even set default
> > options for each printer (personal) plus you can monitor queues
> > through a web page, etc."
>
> It may be worth noting that:
>
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html
>
> contains a software shim that allows many additional printer drivers to be
> used with CUPS.
You mean something like:
pkgsrc/print/cupsomatic-ppds
(to quote from the COMMENT in the Makefile):
COMMENT= free software printer drivers for use with CUPS
Regards,
Alistair