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Re: Printer setup dialog weirdness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Wed Dec 10 09:46:09 2008
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:45:59 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Jonathan Reed wrote:
>
> How easy is it to create a package which adds to the printer driver
> database? I wonder if we want to create debathena-ppds and ship PPD
> files for all the common models at MIT (the Dells, for example)
>
> -Jon
>
I just skimmed through a bunch of PPD-providing packages, and it looks
like we could just drop them in /usr/share/ppd/debathena/ or something
like that. That being said, I know nothing at all about how PPD files fork.
- Evan
