Samsung printer woes

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Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 18:39 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>> Right now I'm going to have rant:
>>
>> I'm seriously pissed off at this SELinux. As near as I can see it does
>> bugger all, but when it stuffs up or gets in the way it does a right
>> royal job of it!
>>
>> Now that thats out of the way, I installed the drivers and software
>> nicely supplied by Samsung (unified linux drivers for mfp) which can
>> only be installed by root. Root can't print- and is stopped by
>> SELinux, and users can't print because the cups setup is root.
>> Shouldn't this be simpler? Any thoughts on what I can do here? 
> 
> Well, I don't have a Samsung printer, but I can say that printing does
> work with other printers.  SELinux stopping something from working
> points the finger squarely at that thing (those particular drivers) for
> doing something that they shouldn't be doing.  Whether that be design
> flaw, or a fault with how you've tried to install them.
> 
> You haven't posted the error messages from SELinux.  You haven't said
> precisely what drivers you've installed, nor where from.  Nor how you
> installed them.
> 
> SELinux has had its faults, but it's generally software doing things it
> shouldn't that is the real problem.  Do you really want software that
> does stupid things, or software that's written properly?
> 
> Given that bad software becomes a real showstopper with SELinux is does
> force the software to get fixed up, more than other influences.
> 
> i.e. In the past, disgruntled users might report that software works in
> a bad manner, and programmers may ignore it because the software does
> still work.  Now it's the software works properly or it doesn't work,
> and they're faced with having to fix it.  Telling victims to turn off
> their protective software gets the drubbing it deserves.
> 
AMEN!!