On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 01:19 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Markku Kolkka wrote: > > >> Whatever they do, it is crazy to have two different programs > >> with the same name. > > > > There's just one program, "printconf", and a bunch of symbolic > > links to it. If you go through the symlinks in /usr/bin/, the > > consolehelper program will ask you the root password before > > running printconf as root. > > Well, consolehelper does not appear to me to be a symlink to anything. > > Obviously the programs are related - it would be bizarre if they weren't - > but to have two programs with the same name which do different things > seems to me a recipe for confusion. > It means that if I type system-config-printer > the effect depends on the definition of $PATH on my system. > > To me it is just one more piece of evidence > that whoever wrote this program did not think carefully enough > about what precisely the program is meant to do. > You are confirming what I keep saying. Do not use system-config-printer. Use the cups web interface. -- ======================================================================= In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982 ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
