[kde-freebsd] Re: [RFC] fix okular printing

David Naylor naylor.b.david at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 12:14:41 CET 2011


On Thursday 27 January 2011 11:47:04 Alberto Villa wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > I see. With my upstream hat on, I don't feel very comfortable with the
> > patch in its current form -- do you intend to send it to the Okular
> > developers?
> 
> well, that patch is absolutely wrong for upstream imho too

I agree.  The patch is a very specific workaround based on the FreeBSD ports 
environment and is probably not applicable to anyone else.  

> > Do you all think it makes sense to contact the cups-base maintainer to
> > see if it's possible to add a lpr.cups or lpr-cups symlink? That way
> > Okular wouldn't need to be patched at all.
> 
> is okular searching for those binaries too? then i'm ok with this
> solution. a quick search on google seems to suggest that lpr-cups is
> more standard, so if we have to choose i vote for this, btu dinoex@
> might be comfortable with adding both, of course
> waiting for other's opinion

That is certainly a good option, it may very well benefit other ports as well.  
I second.  Who will bring this up with dinoex@?  
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