On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Craig White wrote:

> Kevin Brown wrote:
> >
> > uninstall lpr (rpm -e <package name>) then rpm -Uvh cups-<whatever version>
> >
> ----
> I don't believe that the cups is needed at all. If printing is fine
> using LPR - just leave it alone and don't install cups. I can't believe
> that it is necessary for KDE 2.2.1 which should be mostly indifferent to
> how printing occurs.
>


cups isn't needed at compile time, however, without it you lose a lot of
the extended printing features of KDE.  KDE doesn't necesarilly require
it, but if it's compiled with cups support in it, it will.

It makes a lot of sense that a desktop environment cares how printing
occurs.  Since printing is a large part of a lot of people's computer
usage, it would be up to the environment to make printing available in a
user friendly way.

>From what I understand, if you have cups installed, it won't interfere
with lpr, though the RPMs suggest otherwise.  I've had both installed
before with no problems, though I generally compile things like that from
source.  But cups is a lot easier to handle, and speaks the lpr protocol,
anyway, so I eventually switchted over to that.