The timeless magic of open sores

[hirez]

It's time for my regular ramble about cups. (The magic spodix printing infrastructure)

Since I last looked, it seems that the entire edifice is now owned by Apple. This might lead one to believe that bugs have been smited (smitten? smout?) and it all Just Works(tm).

Or indeed not.

It appears that a bizarre dependence on two different TLS libraries is not enough and there's now a third choice. Attempts to persuade it to use just one result in sulking by means of runtime library errors.

Ugh.

% apt-get install cupsys

Comments

[quercus.livejournal.com]

A sentient printing library will naturally want to read the Times Lit. Supp. between jobs.

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

I really must make a spoof distro called Weenix that has every package requiring different versions of all the shared libraries....

Oh wait. I don't need to. Most of the real ones already do that... ;)