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Comment 11 for bug 39847

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 39847] Re: ubuntu-desktop should depend on linuxprinting.org-ppds for PostScript PPDs

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 04:32:02PM -0000, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> linuxprinting.org-ppds and linuxprinting.org-ppds-extra do purely
> contain PPDs as provided from the printer manufacturers, no printer
> descriptions nor any other documentation. Because of its use size I have
> split it off, so that the most important PPDs reside in the 3.5 MB
> linuxprinting.org-ppds package and can go onto the desktop CDs.

By 'descriptions' I meant the PPDs ("PostScript Printer Descriptions", no?).
They are up to 100k each and there are hundreds of them.

Don't we have a facility to autogenerate them from a more concise form?

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 - mdz