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Subject: [Printing-architecture] FHS extension and CUPS
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To: Dan Kohn <dan@dankohn.com>, 'Ian Murdock' <imurdock@imurdock.com>
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Hi,

I have posted a feature request for CUPS being adapted to the new FHS 
extension 
(http://lists.freestandards.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2006/001512.html) 
for printing:

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2202

Mike has answered that he will implement this in CUPS 1.3.

The problems are

- Of CUPS 1.3 there is not even an alpha version, will it go final
   before the LSB 3.2 deadline?

- Novell and Red Hat want to put out an update to fulfill the FHS
   extensions. Is it not perhaps a too high impact for an enterprise
   distro to replace CUPS 1.2 (x >> 0) by CUPS 1.3, especially 1.3.0?

Or should we better recommend to the distros to simply do

ln -s /usr/share/ppd /usr/share/cups/model/usrshareppd
ln -s /opt/share/ppd /usr/share/cups/model/optshareppd
ln -s /usr/local/share/ppd /usr/share/cups/model/usrlocalshareppd

in their CUPS package for now? This makes CUPS searching for the PPDs in 
the right places.

    Till