CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS?

>From: Jared Barneck <mailinglistsbsdcertification.com>
>Subject: Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS?
>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:27:51 -0600
>
>Michael Nottebrock wrote:
>
>>On Thursday, 22. September 2005 20:42, Eric
Pretorious wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks, Mike. I didn't have a chance to try it
out: I decided to switch 
>>>ack to Gentoo because of the steep learning
curve that comes along with 
>>>FreeBSD's ports & packages.
>>>
>>>
>Can I just say that moving back to Gentoo because of a
"steep learning 
>curve" is no just ironic, but down right funny. 


Installing CUPS/HPIJS was as easy as...

%> emerge cups ghostscript hpijs

Portage automatically retrieves, compiles, and installs
CUPS, GhostScript, 
the complete Foomatic configurator, HPIJS, etc., etc. and 
_integrates_them_all_. i.e., All of the HPIJS
drivers/filters and Foomatic 
drivers/filters are *already* present in the web-based CUPS
interface.

Now *that* is what I call a relatively-flat learning
curve!!!

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On 10/1/05, Eric Pretorious <epretorioushotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Jared Barneck <mailinglistsbsdcertification.com>
> >Subject: Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS?
> >Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:27:51 -0600
> >
> >Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> >
> >>On Thursday, 22. September 2005 20:42, Eric
Pretorious wrote:
> >>
> >>>Thanks, Mike. I didn't have a chance to try
it out: I decided to switch
> >>>ack to Gentoo because of the steep learning
curve that comes along with
> >>>FreeBSD's ports & packages.
> >>>
> >>>
> >Can I just say that moving back to Gentoo because
of a "steep learning
> >curve" is no just ironic, but down right
funny.  
>
> Installing CUPS/HPIJS was as easy as...
>
> %> emerge cups ghostscript hpijs
>
> Portage automatically retrieves, compiles, and installs
CUPS, GhostScript,
> the complete Foomatic configurator, HPIJS, etc., etc.
and
> _integrates_them_all_. i.e., All of the HPIJS
drivers/filters and Foomatic
> drivers/filters are *already* present in the web-based
CUPS interface.
>
> Now *that* is what I call a relatively-flat learning
curve!!!
>

Hey, I'm glad that you find gentoo a more convenient
environment, but here's my story.

I've been with FreeBSD since 4.9 and use it on my
desktop at home, but I also have some experience
with Linux (starting with Red Hat 6.x and ksi-linux,
and up to now - I use RHEL and FC3/4 on some
servers, and Debian on my desktop at work).

So one day a couple of weeks ago I decided to try
the so much praised Gentoo on an athlon64 box at
home. First I tried to make it through without any
prior reading. But I was surprised at the fact that
one of the most popular distro doesn't have a
visually guided installation. Ok, I downloaded and
printed your handbook (or what was it called) - and
read it from the top to the bottom. That took me a
while, all right.

Now, with some distro-specific knowledge, I tried
my luck again - only to find that at one point
the installation fails to start X.org in order to
continue 

I won't dive into all the detail, but I somehow got
all I needed to know about Gentoo in one night,
and I hope that my humble being will never
stumble upon this OS once again 


Cheerz,
Andrew P.
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On 10/1/05, Eric Pretorious <epretorioushotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Jared Barneck <mailinglistsbsdcertification.com>
> >Subject: Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS?
> >Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:27:51 -0600
> >
> >Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> >
> >>On Thursday, 22. September 2005 20:42, Eric
Pretorious wrote:
> >>
> >>>Thanks, Mike. I didn't have a chance to try
it out: I decided to switch
> >>>ack to Gentoo because of the steep learning
curve that comes along with
> >>>FreeBSD's ports & packages.
> >>>
> >>>
> >Can I just say that moving back to Gentoo because
of a "steep learning
> >curve" is no just ironic, but down right
funny.  
>
> Installing CUPS/HPIJS was as easy as...
>
> %> emerge cups ghostscript hpijs
>
> Portage automatically retrieves, compiles, and installs
CUPS, GhostScript,
> the complete Foomatic configurator, HPIJS, etc., etc.
and
> _integrates_them_all_. i.e., All of the HPIJS
drivers/filters and Foomatic
> drivers/filters are *already* present in the web-based
CUPS interface.
>
> Now *that* is what I call a relatively-flat learning
curve!!!
>
>
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BTW, to do the same thing in FreeBSD you
type:

# portinstall cups -m 'WITH_CUPS=yes' hpijs

ghostscript and all other dependencies are
installed automatically. The -m switch tells
hpijs to support cups, but if you omit it the
port tells you about it.
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On Sunday, 2. October 2005 12:24, Andrew P. wrote:
> On 10/1/05, Eric Pretorious <epretorioushotmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>Thanks, Mike. I didn't have a chance
to try it out: I decided to
> > >>> switch ack to Gentoo because of the
steep learning curve that comes
> > >>> along with FreeBSD's ports &
packages.
> > >
> > >Can I just say that moving back to Gentoo
because of a "steep learning
> > >curve" is no just ironic, but down right
funny.  
> >
> > Installing CUPS/HPIJS was as easy as...
> >
> > %> emerge cups ghostscript hpijs
>
> BTW, to do the same thing in FreeBSD you
> type:
>
> # portinstall cups -m 'WITH_CUPS=yes' hpijs

The foomatic driver definitions for hpijs were not in ports
when Andrew asked 
about them, they are now. If there is anything further to
discuss (and I 
don't think there is), could you guys please take me off the
CC'd recipients 
list?

Thanks,
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