cups ppd files

[Timothy Murphy]

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.



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