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

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On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Dan McDonald <developer at lists.illumos.org>wrote:

> Peter's right --> only mod_ipp needs Apache 1.3:
>
> On May 6, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Garrett D'Amore <developer at lists.illumos.org>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> We've (to be accurate, Theo) removed apache 1.3 requirements from
> illumos-omnios already:
>
>
> https://github.com/omniti-labs/illumos-omnios/commit/a5c6580a73d12021080cf3101ff30676007d8754
>

Nice. That would be my preferred solution here.

There are applications that have knowledge of the old print
system ingrained. Realistically, anything that old is just
after the old CLI (and the scripts underneath it), and is
unlikely to be interested in ipp.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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