[illumos-Developer] picpack?!?

Garrett D'Amore garrett at nexenta.com
Sun Aug 29 10:11:44 PDT 2010


On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 10:07 -0700, Gary Driggs wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Gary Mills wrote:
> 
> > If System V printing is open code, we should retain it, particularly if it's still the default for Solaris 11.
> 
> Doesn't cups already include command line compatibility with Sys V and BSD printing for that very reason? What would be missing aside from legacy config files?

Yes, although the other thing that it included was support for some of
the legacy filters which we can nuke.  (E.g. plot(4B).)  ISTR at least
one other feature that was unlikely to be in use anywhere, but I don't
recall what it was -- I'd have to review my mail to find it.

	- Garrett

> 
> -Gary
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