CUPS backend plugins

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Wed May 19 14:52:38 UTC 2004


On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:42:48PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:

> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 02:53:29PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
[...]
> > Is there a reason why the trigger is done that way round -- in the
> > _cups_ specfile rather than the samba one? Or why we can't ship the
> > extra CUPS backend in a separate 'bluez-utils-cups' RPM which puts
> > it directly into /usr/lib/cups/backend/ instead of making the
> > symlink in a trigger script? Or any of the other possibilities?
> 
> That certainly sounds like the best thing to do for new packages.  It
> would be best to keep the knowledge of that backend in the package
> that provides it.

I wasn't very clear here: I meant that any of these alternatives are
better than putting it in cups.spec. :-)

Having a separate subpackage (which requires cups) sounds like the
best approach.

Tim.
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