Gutenprint core or extras

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Donnerstag, den 30.03.2006, 15:16 -0600 schrieb Rex Dieter:
> Andy Burns wrote:
> > Tim Waugh wrote:
> > 
> >> Ideally we would be switching from gimp-print to gutenprint in one
> >> move, without ever having them side-by-side.
> >>
> >> Issues to think about include how to migrate existing queues from
> >> gimp-print to gutenprint..
> > 
> > Is that to say switching it via extras is a bad thing? Or just to warn 
> > that it's not a trivial thing?
> 
> Either way, it'll certainly not be trivial.

Either way, I think having gutenprint in FC5-updates or FE5 sounds like
a really good idea because it supports lots of modern printers that are
unsupported otherwise.

On the kernel-level we're already having great hardware support due to
the regular kernel-updates. We IMHO should try to provide good hardware
support in userland, too. Means: Updated printer drivers and X-Drivers
for the current distro (e.g. FC5 in this case) to support newer hardware
that was unsupported when the distro was released (or even not on the
market when the distro was released).

CU
thl