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Do we need this crap on LWN?Do we need this crap on LWN?Posted Feb 21, 2007 20:19 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by proski Parent article: ESR's goodbye note
Unfortunately, while the CUPS rant had some tangible meat to it, this one seems to be just a rant. It's also inconsistent with many of his previous public statements about Fedora.
It would have been helpful if ESR had filed a bug report about the package that broke things, or indeed even said what FC release and repositories were in use -- or indeed, the package in question.
(This is particularly ironic given that ESR maintains the "how to ask smart questions" FAQ.)
Come on, he manually force-erased a critical system library. Of course things will break!
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Do we need this crap on LWN? Posted Feb 23, 2007 14:46 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link] > the CUPS rant had some tangible meat to itNo it did not. It was the same problem -- the guy didn't want to use the right tool for the job. In the case of CUPS, I have not encountered a printer that didn't show up correctly in the "Printers" KDE control panel applet for a long time. Plug it in, fire kcontrol, install the cups drivers, print away -- including network printers. I am a Kubuntu-using guy, but ESR's rants are normally tangible-meat-free. :-)
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