On Feb 8, 2018 6:31 PM, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk"
wrote:
Printer settings can get even more complicated when you look at ppds.
I think that is because different printers have different settings.
I'd strongly advise any sane user to avoid looking at PPDs. Initially they
were a fairly concis
I usually like printing on both sides of a piece of paper. For arcane
reasons, this is called "duplexing" (a lot of printing terminology is
arcane). When I buy a printer, I always try for one that can do
automatic duplexing.
Context: I use Fedora with Gnome and CUPS.
For years now, I've been a
On 2018-02-08 02:47 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>
> Yeah, I tend to agree with the maintainer here, although I find the term
> "shared object" a bit overloaded.
Good news is that he *has* decided to make the change, since so many
packages depend on what file/magic does.
> So I guess there m
On Thursday, February 08 2018, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> On 2018-02-07 02:54 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
Thanks for the bug report; only this is not a bug. PIE
executables are shared objects. There is no way to tell them
apart from shared objects.
>
> So we're kind o
On 2018-02-07 02:54 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>
> Unfortunately it seems that "file" is not "properly maintained" in
> the sense that the project doesn't have a trivial way to receive
> contributions.
But it does help when list members like Chris know the original
developer and can get yo