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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated
From:       Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan () gmail ! com>
Date:       2023-10-31 11:03:55
Message-ID: 756ceb400fa5fbd2b5f934f124e7e65bcfeb8dbd.camel () gmail ! com
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On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 18:11 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> 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.

Clearly there is a driver involved. I think the term just means that no
additional driver is required. Note that Microsoft recently announced
that future versions of Windows (IIRC) would not support manufacturer-
provided drivers, so there appears to be an industry move in this
direction.

poc
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