[cups.general] Why not "recommend" PPDs in the NickName?

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

in the (shortened) mail below you wished that there is
no longer any "recommended" driver/PPD.

Could you explain why?

I know that often users simply want the "best driver" but
of course there is no "best driver" (i.e. no "best PPD").

But as far as I see this does not mean that we should not
help an unexperienced user by recommending a particular driver
(or even recommend a few drivers for the same model which
would not cause a problem as long as all recommended
drivers/PPDs work at least o.k.).

The example in the mail below shows a bug that a wrong
driver/PPD is marked as "recommended" which must be fixed
but as far as I see this does not mean that the general idea
to have recommended drivers/PPDs is wrong.

Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5      Mail: jsmeix at suse.de
90409 Nuernberg, Germany                    WWW: http://www.suse.de/

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Sweet <mike at easysw.com>
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Subject: Re: [cups.general] Reverse printing?  SOLVED

lists.cups-general at duinheks.xs4all.nl wrote:
> ...
> OK. That other printer worked perfect. So instead of the 
> hp_LaserJet_1300_series.ppd, which CUPS marked "recommended",

No, "foomatic" marks it as "recommended".  CUPS has nothing to
do with that, and I really wish Till would remove that "recommended"
nonsense from the Foomatic model names...