[cups.general] Q. Proper way tostartup cupsdasanon-rootuserasopposed to debian hacks?

[Michael Sweet]

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Johannes Meixner wrote:
>> The same problem exists for example for CUPS 1.1.x with
>> non-compliant stuff like PPD generation on the fly
>> by using Foomatic tools (as far as I know Red Hat's printer
>> setup tool did it this way) so that all other printer setup
>> tools won't show any of those models which are supported by
>> Foomatic and the user may report it as a "CUPS problem" to you.
> 
> This one I have already fixed with CUPS 1.2. The current
> foomatic-db-engine package has an appropriately adapted foomatic-ppdfile
> script which is symlinked as /usr/lib/cups/driver/foomatic, this way
> CUPS does the on-the-fly PPD generation for Foomatic PPDs and so all
> printer setup tools which use CUPS in the standard way see the full
> range of Foomatic PPDs. So pre-building the Foomatic PPDs is not
> necessary any more.
> 
> The HPLIP USB issue will be fixed in CUPS 1.3 with a new USB backend
> which does not use the "usblp" kernel module any more. So you will be
> able to use and Epson MF device and an HP MF device on the same machine.
> Should one perhaps backport this USB backend into 1.2.x?

That will be possible once we get it in trunk and have some more
experience with the backend.

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