At 9:22 AM -0700 7/11/00, David O'Brien wrote:

If one checks back to the start of this thread, back on June 23rd I wrote:

Second, my guess is that lprNG will not be a perfectly compatible drop-in replacement for freebsd's current lpr. I do expect it would work fine for most people, but that some people will find that they will have to futz around with their printcap/printing setup to get the behavior they are used to (whatever that may be...). That might be an annoying extra step in upgrading to whatever release of freebsd that this happens on.

This suggests to me that MAYBE we don't want to bring lprNG into the base system, so much as MOVE the current lpr from the base system into a port. Wherever it is that someone selects that they want 'printing' on their freebsd config, they could select either this new port or the lprNG-based port.

Does this seem reasonable/practical/useful?

Note that I wrote this before there was any talk of me possibly being the maintainer for the current lpr. If we DO want to do this, I guess I would also like to add the wimp-out clause that I'd like someone other than me to set up the port, and then I'd look to maintain this new lpr port (call it 'lpr-tce'), AFTER someone else has done that initial port-izing work.

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