Andreas Jaeger wrote:
[...]
> * Status on print configuration
>
> - Discussion on opensuse-factory has been started.
> - Cups 1.2 has policies - and there's also discussion about role
> based YaST. We should avoid too many different solutions.
> - Red Hat seems to use hal backend.
> - Looking at Fedora solutions, they have some database for automatic
> setup.
> - not sure what can be done in time for 10.3
>
I'm wondering how this _result_ came up.
The discussion on opensuse-factory seemed to have stopped, whereas in
the dist meeting were now some results presented, which seem not to
honor some important facts, and seem not to be common positions.
So I cannot agree with the later listed results, i.e. the
RedHat/Fedora related ones.
Why we should _not_ use Hal backend:
- We cannot use hal backend, if we have need to support printing
ability of multifunction printers (scanner/printer/fax). The lock
of the usb device when supporting the scanning functionality is
the main reason.
- To have a full support of printers, we need to support vendor
specific backends (!= hal backend), like those from HP or Epson.
- The hal backend lacks still of implementation of new features of the
cups-1.2.x system. The upstream maintainer (RedHat/Fedora) doesn't
show any activity regarding this since release of cups-1.2x (9
months). ==> outdated.
- It's not necessary to use the hal backend just to have the hal
functionality of plugin/remove of printers use.
Writing a hal policy file (.fdi file) with call of an Novell/SuSE
specific tool should be enough/better.
We should not use the automatic setup solution from Fedora:
- The origin of the database seems not to be public. We cannot react
if we want to handle all of our supported printers just before a
product realase. We are always one release cycle behind
RedHat/Fedora if we want to use their solution. No improvements
at our side.
- The automatic setup didn't show any further development at
Fedora/RedHat since quiet some time (it's outdated!). This was the
main reason, why even Ubuntu/Debian went away and uses now
printerdrake.
- We already have a in-house solution, named YaST!!! Why cant we use
that? YaST already does automatic printer installation, when doing a
new system installation. It should be no major effort, to enhance
YaST in such a way that we get an command-line interface to do this.
Regards,
Klaus.
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