On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 07:54, Jon Shorie wrote: > > I have a binary print server that requires LPRng, however > > the folks at KDE and/or Fedora Developing have made it so > > that CUPS is required to be installed to install KDE base. > > This policy is short sighted and this forcing the adoption > > of a print server system is anti-Open Source and choice. > > I hope that this policy by Fedora Development and/or KDE > > will stop now. > > The Fedora development team do not have to support LPRng > > but the way that they have forced CUPS down the throats of > > Fedora users is absolutely wrong. > > I think that you have some misunderstanding of the difference between CUPS on > the client and CUPS being required on the server. > No I don't, Fedora RPMS for KDE require CUPS to be installed. > We have 18 linux boxes, 2 solaris, and 40 windoze ones that print using this > system. 2 of the linux boxes (Fedora Core 1) are only running cups. The > others are all running lprng or lpr. > That is nice, it has nothing to do with KDE RPMS from Fedora requiring CUPS to be installed. > When setting up the printer on the client, be sure to select use strict RFC > 1197 support for any printer queue that sends jobs to an lpr/lprng print > server and it just works. Which has nothing to do with KDE RPMS from Fedora requiring CUPS to be installed. -- Best Regards, Keith NW Oregon Radio http://kilowatt-radio.org/ Pax melior est quam iustissimum bellum.
