Re: Retiring lpr and lpd

"Simon J. Gerraty" <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:31:52 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tomoaki AOKI <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are there any alternatives that can be incorporated into base,
> including dependencies mandatory to work, and maintained?

With base moving to packages - is that really an issue?
 
> print/cups seems to depend on GPL'ed matters by default
> and I'm not sure if it still "actually" works at least the level
> of lpr families when all GPL'ed options disabled.

I've used cups for many years - ignoring GPL though.