CUPS sucks!

[ncoesel]

I've spend the last two days trying to get cups to work on an embedded platform. The major problem I'm experiencing is that Cups provides no diagnostic information at all so I don't know what I must fix. It appeared my lp0 device had insufficient rights. Doesn't say in the documentation, I had to visit the links in 3 pages of Google results before I found an obscure forum that gave a hint towards the rights. Now I still need to solve an 'Unsupported format' problem.

Guys (and girls), this really needs fixing! The commands like lpstat, cupsd have no help to show the options (--help) or to show the version (--version). The way cups is now is a real maintenance nightmare. I expected much better from a company like Apple!

Meanwhile I dump cups in favor of the old Linux printing system!