On Sun, 2024-09-01 at 16:05 -0600, home user via users wrote: > My primary concern is the message regarding a "deprecated" printer > driver. As I understand "deprecated", something should already have > happened but didn't, and the old way will soon cease working. So: > 1. What is it that should have happened but didn't, and why? > 2. I need to do something soon. What? I would think that deprecated in this case would mean something that those people managing CUPS will eventually have to deal with. From time to time you see mention in configuration, man, and log files that some /thing/ is deprecated. Possibly *you* may have to take some action eventually, if you've customised something instead of something being automatically configured. As far as printer driving is concerned, there's a belief that we should move away from every printer having their own incompatible ways of doing things (yay!), and there should be a common standard (good luck with that) where you can just print to your printer through the system with you having to do little other than choose I want to print to /that/ one. I'm guessing there's going to be a mass dumping of unsupported printers at some stage (I mean disposal of no-longer usable printers in the trash). I'm also guessing that various printer makers are only going to half- heartedly support this. You'll probably get some basic print mode, but for good printing you'll have to use their special software. I can't see them giving up their vendor-lock-in mentality. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
