Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi!

Hi!

> In the latest Mandrake Cooker Weekly News, it says:
> 
> | To give easy access for the users to this new concept printerdrake was
> | substancially changed. It is now completely based on Foomatic and so it
> | does the same steps to set up and configure printers, independent which
> | spooler is actually used. The only exception is that for the case of
> | CUPS.
> 
> There, it's talking about printerdrake being able to configure not only
> CUPS, but also other printing systems.
> 
> Uhm - how do I tell printerdrake to not use CUPS?  I tried removing all
> of cups (besides libcups - see my mail "KDE relies to heavy on CUPS" (or
> somehting like this *G*)) and installed pdq.  However, when I run
> "printerdrake", it always installs cups and associated tools.
> 
> The same thing happens when only lpr is installed.
> 
> Why is that?

Look at /etc/foomatic/defaultspooler which contains one of
cups, lprng, lpd or pdq.

Try printerdrake with expert mode else (--expert).

François.

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