https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673845
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673845#c75
--- Comment #75 from Johannes Meixner 2011-11-22 08:55:14 UTC ---
I could not respond because I was on sick leave.
Silviu Marin-Caea and Stefan Seyfried,
very many thanks for your valuable contribution to openSUSE!
Stefan Seyfried,
regarding comment #65:
"package serial and parallel backends as an addon package"
is exactly the only right solution.
We already have the package cups-backends in "Printing"
to provide "stand-alone" addon backends for CUPS (i.e. for backends
which do not belong to another package). Perhaps a backend for a
parallel printer may belong to the parallel-printer-support package?
Because the CUPS backend sources parallel.c and serial.c
include various CUPS "private" stuff via "backend-private.h"
it is perhaps easier to have simple scripts as backends
for parallel and serial printers e.g. similar as the
"careless backend for a single USB printer" described at
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Backends_to_Print_with_CUPS
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