cups ppd files

[Timothy Murphy]

Tony Nelson wrote:

> At 2:13 PM +0100 8/26/06, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  ...
>>I see I have _two_ versions of system-config-printer
>>on my laptop, in /usr/bin (which takes priority) and /usr/sbin :
>>-----------------------------------
>>[tim at elizabeth ~]$ ls -ls `which system-config-printer`
>>0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 23 13:10 /usr/bin/system-config-printer ->
>>consolehelper
>>[tim at elizabeth ~]$ ls -ls /usr/sbin/system-config-printer
>>0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 23 13:10 /usr/sbin/system-config-printer ->
>>printconf
>>-----------------------------------
>>Both versions are supplied by the same (recent) system-config-printer rpm.
> 
> One of them authenticates you first, the other one just executes the tool.


Whatever they do, it is crazy to have two different programs
with the same name.
 

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