[illumos-Developer] picpack?!?

[Gary Mills]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 09:19:34PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I was looking at some old stuff that I meant to take care of before I
> left Oracle, and one them was cleaning up a bunch of the old postscript
> filters for file formats not used anymore.
> 
> See bugid https://www.illumos.org/issues/111
> 
> There was a PSARC case on this that I filed months ago too... PSARC
> 2009/586 I think.  
> 
> I think I can nuke picpack as well... if you think so too, please let me
> know.

What does it do?  I can't find a man page for that one.

> One of my little side goals is to make illumos carry less baggage, and
> this would be the first part of a larger project to eliminate lpsched.
> (We have cups for printing now.)

We should be careful about upward compatibility here.  I know the
default was changed in Opensolaris, but both methods remained.  If
System V printing is open code, we should retain it, particularly if
it's still the default for Solaris 11.

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