Bug 79090

Summary:	dvips (tetex) sends output to printer by default
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tor Klingberg <tor.klingberg>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	TeX project <tex>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	cbm, k.epost
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tor Klingberg 2005-01-22 07:15:22 UTC

The program 'dvips', available in package tetex and perhaps others, will send its output to lpr by default. This is stupid. 

It is fixed by commenting out 
o |lpr
in /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Tor Klingberg 2005-02-03 13:00:46 UTC

May I request sending this to the developewrs upstream?

Unless you disagree with me. In that case close this bug as INVALID or WONTFIX

Comment 2 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-04 06:46:39 UTC

Sorry for the delay. As for sending PostScript output to lpr,
I applied a patch to a2ps (app-text/a2ps) to send its output
to stdout (the patch was requested by some users) instead 
of sending it to lpr (default), but there are several users 
complaining it's not good to changed the default behaviour, 
so I added "vanilla" USE flag to disable the patch.
I cannot say which is better (not change the default, change
the default, or let users choose via USE flag), any idea?

Comment 3 Kim Pedersen 2007-04-17 13:29:02 UTC

This bug report is pretty old, and I think it should be closed with WONTFIX, as sending output to the printer is an upstream 'feature' and people are used to. I don't think that is Gentoo's purpose to fix bad upstream decisions.

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-04 12:05:20 UTC

As said above, if you want the defaults changed, that's what upstream is for, not Gentoo bugzilla.