* Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: > Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or thread > (which I couldn't find) that explains why we need xprint, how it fits > in, and what programs it replaces, I'd appreciate it. > > I'm probably not alone ;-).
There was a long thread about this a few months back. After reading it and the bug reports the only technical reason that I read was that xprt did a better job printing glyphs from other languages than the FF/Moz default PS engine. After that it seemed to be mostly an anti-north american bias by the Firefox maintainer. I don't wish to start a flame war, but that was my impression after reading the whole thing. I avoided the whole thing by using the mozilla.org built binaries which don't use xprt. Since I had gotten CUPS and my printers working flawlessly a scant few weeks before the whole xprt thing blew up, I was glad, for once, that I wasn't using the Debian packages for these apps. Since they still depend on xprt I've continued to use the mozilla.org packages. - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | free since January 1998. http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | "Debian, the choice of My Kawasaki KZ-650 SR @ | a GNU generation!" http://www.networksplus.net/n0nb/ | http://www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]