On May 13, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Daniel Wolk wrote:

I did not

realize that cups is so finicky, and that the Mac OS dmg images from

the cups website were so incompatible with my system.

CUPS comes as part of OS X, so I can't imagine why you installed another version. The finickiness you observe could be due to the two versions being incompatibly installed: I don't know if the ESP version installs everything in exactly the same place as the factory version. I have been using CUPS for quite some time (before it was part of OS X) and it's pretty solid.

It might help to make a copy of your install DVD to keep with you.

One big annoyance is that it is very difficult to uninstall 3rd party
software. I have learned my lesson: I will avoid it as much as
possible.

I'm not sure that's the lesson to draw: I think getting your existing issues with X11/gtk2/CUPS resolved will go a long way to getting things right side up. I use *lots* of 3rd party stuff and don't see issues like this.

Paul Beard

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Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?