Fedora, KDE and Printing Package Policy Stinks

[Keith]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 08:14, Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:10:50AM -0700, Keith 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. 
> 
> The cups page say cups is released under the GPL.
> 

 What the hell does that have to do with KDE RPMS requiring CUPS
to install?

> Cups has support for ipp and lpd builtin and provides security for
> printing.
> 

 What the hell does that have to do with KDE RPMS requiring 
CUPS to install? 


> I don't understand your grips?
> 

 Of course you don't and that is why you are blathering in this
response.

> You have a binary print server that requires LPRng, you mean it won't
> work with the standard cups LPD support?  Sounds like the owner of the
> binary print server is the one who should release his source code.
> 

 Why should they do that because KDE RPM Packages from Fedora require
CUPS to be installed?


> I like cups;)
> 

 So what?

> 
> jay
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