Status of cups-base and avahi-app?

[Thomas Mueller]

>From Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org>:

> Well... you lose avahi, which is a zeroconf implementation, but you're
> probably just better off with samba.

> The BROKEN message references http://www.avahi.org/ticket/303 -- look
> there for more information on why it's marked as such.

>Chris

I found that avahi bug ticket, noticed some Linuxes, including Ubuntu, manage to work around the bug.

I guess I'll turn off the avahi option.  What counts is getting the printer to work with hplip.

I might also try to build wine and see if the MS-Windows driver for the printer works that way.

Tom