[cups.bugs] [MOD] STR #2371: Support /usr/share/ppd/ directory
Martin Pitt
martin.pitt at canonical.com
Tue May 1 22:47:24 PDT 2007
Hello Mike,
Michael Sweet [2007-04-30 9:17 -0400]:
> DO NOT CHANGE THE DEFAULT MODEL DIRECTORY. Instead, make symlinks to the
> LSB-defined directories, otherwise you will (again) break CUPS drivers on
again?
> Debian. /usr/share/cups/model is the standard location for CUPS drivers,
> while the LSB defines three separate locations for drivers.
*Shrug* Debian's printer drivers are all shipped in /usr/share/ppd, so
the symlink is (1) not necessary any more, and worse, (2) leads to
duplicate printer entries when there is a symlink loop somewhere (e.
g. if a broken printer driver package ships a symlink into the other
direction).
Till defined the new location for LSB and proposed the change to cups,
I don't believe it is totally wrong. After all the symlink mess I'm
on his side. There should be *one* place where to put PPD files; I
don't see the reason why there should be one per spooling system,
since PPDs were designed to be platform and spooler independent.
Regards,
Martin
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