Printer preferences and FC4

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 11:56 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 February 2006 08:50, Bengt Lindholm wrote:
> >System-config-printer / Cups= localhost:631 was configured at
> 
> They are NOT interchangeable.  Please ignore system-config-printer (its 
> a known broken package) and use only the <http://localhost:631> web 
> interface to do the configuration.  Playing mix-n-match is a sure way 
> to keep on having problems.
> 
> >FC4-installation time to use A4 paper size and still is.
> 
> Installation time for any FC uses system-config-printer.  Remove, by 
> hand, any /etc/printcap files you find and then use the web interface, 
> which should work ok then.  In fact, I use it as the homepage setting 
> at launch for all the browsers I have installed.
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the problem with advice like this is that some people will actually
accept this information without a grain of salt. I haven't a clue what
your definition of a 'known broken package' is but in my view...it's
perfectly functional so it's clear that what you are terming 'known
broken' is relative to the person making the judgment call.

In other words...system-config-printer works fine on FC-4...I use it all
the time.

It's probably a bad idea to mix usage of system-config-printer and the
cups web configuration tool as they seem to work at cross purposes.

Craig