[oi-dev] [developer] 2837 - remove print/lp* from gate and use CUPS from userland

[Garrett D'Amore]

I'd love to see it go.  But I will wait for others to complain first. 

One idea would be to eject it from the gate and put it into a new repo where it could also be updated if people still want it. 

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> On May 6, 2014, at 12:48 AM, "Alexander Pyhalov" <developer at lists.illumos.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> When I tried to rebuild apache 1.3 again I found out that mod_ssl doesn't like OpenSSL 1.0.
> Of course, I could look at it and try update it, but does someone really use apache 1.3?
> Now it's only used as illumos-gate build dependency.
> 
> Last time the question of removing print/lp* from the gate was rejected partially because cups didn't provide trusted printing support.
> Our (OI /hipster) version of cups has TX patches. However, I haven't checked that it works.
> As I understand, most distributions have already stripped this code. Isn't it a good time to reconsider the question - either update dependency to apache 2 or remove it?
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Alexander Pyhalov,
> system administrator of Computer Center of Southern Federal University
> 
> 
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