[Nix-dev] [PATCH] Samsung printer driver; probably can't be distributed; see inside

[James Cook]

Hi folks,

    After much agony I've gotten Samsung's printer driver to work on NixOS.  I'm posting the work here in the hope that nobody else has to go through the same thing.

    The patch is distributed as a bunch of binaries together with an install script that doesn't work on NixOS.  This expression ignores the install script and just copies whichever files seem to be necessary.

  It might not be legal to include this in nixpkgs.  Should I get in touch with Samsung?  I put a copy of Samsung's EULA at <http://www.falsifian.org/a/e5IK/eula.htm> -- but the strange thing is, I never encountered this EULA when downloading the file or trying to run their installer script: I only found it by searching for files named "*eula*" in the tarball.  At the very least, I hope some other poor Samsung owner finds this e-mail useful.

    The expression is an awful hack, by the way.  If someone has a better way to make it work, speak up!

James
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