Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Imprimante Epson

[Solomon P. <pi...@sh...>]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 06:37:51PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> There is also pkgsrc, which is a multi-OS portable packaging system.  I
> have been maintaining a gutenprint-lib package, not 100% diligently but
> often up to date.

Out of curiousity, who/what is using gutenprint-lib?  Having some clue 
about our downstream users would be hignly beneficial.

> With pkgsrc, there is no notion of creating official mac dmg installers.
> There is a foo-1.2.tar.gz "package" which is in pkgsrc format (tarball
> with the files that go in /opt/pkg and some control files), and one uses
> pkg_add to add that.  From the point of view of the OS this is just
> placing programs in the FS.  If even that starts to be restricted, then
> I don't see a good path forward.

Can files be placed outside of opt for the times when tighter system 
integration is needed? For example, our CUPS integration needs to be 
able to shove stuff in the directories for filters, backends, and 
drivers, with the libraries they need (ie libgutenprint) placed in a 
place reachable by the global/default LD_LIBRARY_PATH...

> That seems to be the nature of apple these days.  Not clear if there is
> a path to thigns going well.

With the envisioned "printing application" future, in many ways the 
system integration gets easier.  But of course we first need to create 
said application.  :)

 - Solomon
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