[cups.general] CUPS looking for "hpcups" in wrong directory

[Timothy Cartwright]

I'm using an old distro openSUSE 10.3, so I won't worry about it. I'm
just happy I got it resolved. I'm sure the newer version's have this
resolved. Maybe it's time for me to udpate ;-)

Thanks for your time.

Regards,
Timothy

On 08/28/2009 10:43 AM, Michael Sweet was rumored to have said:
>> We get this request from time to time; in concept it isn't a huge deal
>> (and would allow us to support /usr/local/lib/cups/filter, etc.), but
>> if we implement this for all of the helper apps (backends, port
>> monitors, notifiers, etc.) the changes get a lot larger.  Then there
>> is the issue of precedence - if you have pstoraster in both /usr/lib/
>> cups/filter and /usr/lib64/cups/filter, which one should we run?
>>
>> If you can come up with a proposal that clearly addresses those issues
>> (or just have strong feelings that we should try to do something about
>> it instead of getting the Linux distributors to agree on a single
>> directory), feel free to file it on the bug page:
>>
>>     http://www.cups.org/str.php
>>
>> Probably the simplest fix would be to have the Linux distros provide a
>> symlink from /usr/lib64/cups to /usr/lib/cups so that third-party (or
>> distro-provided) packages install everything in one place.