Re: Retiring lpr and lpd
Steve Kargl <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:28:42 -0800
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On 2/20/26 18:31, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > 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? Does pkgbase provide binaries compiled for the lowest common cpu architecture? Will I get i686 instruction set versus zen5 with a pkgbase libm? At one time, FreeBSD claimed that a new installation was a complete UNIX(-like) environment upon installation. Yes, one needed to configure certain features such as adding a few lines to /etc/printcap to get a functioning printer. -- steve