CUPS backend plugins

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:52 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> 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.

OK, that's what I've done. A new set of bluez packages is in my yum repo
at ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/fc2-mac/ (That's for FC2/ppc;
i386 users can rebuild if they want).

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dwmw2