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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated
From:       Michael Hennebry <hennebry () web ! cs ! ndsu ! nodak ! edu>
Date:       2023-10-30 23:11:17
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.21.2310301807330.8985 () mail ! cs ! ndsu ! nodak ! edu
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2023, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 12:46 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> CUPS wrote:
>>> Note:Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated and will stop
>>> working in a
>> future version of CUPS.
>>
>> Then what?
>> It wrote that after I installed a Brother HL-L2360DW
>> using the printer-driver-brlaser-6.2.6-1.fc38.x86_64 package.
>> It provided the
>> Brother HL-L2360D series, using brlaser v6 (en)
>> option under model.
>>
>> If CUPS rejects my printer before it runs out of ink,
>> will I have another option?
>
> My Brother all-in-one (DCP-L2530DW) works without the proprietary
> drivers, using the "driverless" Avahi config option (i.e. DNSSD). I
> assume that's what the CUPS message is referring to.

Not really sure what driverless means.
I think DCP-L2530DW was one of the "model"
options available without the package.
Had to install a package to get mine.

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Michael   hennebry@mail.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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happily entwined with others, and then someone comes along,
cuts you open, and rips your guts out."      --       Buffy
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