Samba network printers unusable with default Fedora Desktop installs

[drago01]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 14:36 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> >         Why does it need samba-client? It's a package containing
>>> >         command-line
>>> >         utilities none of which seem to be used by
>>> >         gnome-control-center.
>>> > I have no idea, all I know is that I got an error trying to add a
>>> > samba printer without this package installed. Same issue happens with
>>> > system-config-printer (just a bit more verbose, saying "CUPS ERROR NOT
>>> > POSSIBLE" or something similar, so it must be some lousy cups
>>> > problem)
>>>
>>> Then it seems to me that cups or system-config-printer are missing the
>>> dep, not control-center.
>>>
>>> $ FILES=`rpm -ql system-config-printer | grep 'py$'` ; for i in `rpm -ql
>>> samba-client | grep /bin/` ; do BASENAME=`basename $i` ; grep -l
>>> $BASENAME $FILES && echo $i ; done
>>> /usr/share/system-config-printer/troubleshoot/CheckPrinterSanity.py
>>> /usr/bin/nmblookup
>>>
>>> Looks like system-config-printer might be responsible for the missing
>>> dep. Would be better if that wasn't needed though.
>>>
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>>
>>
>> Shouldn't printers work even with system-config-printer isn't present on the
>> system tho?
>> There are some people who would really like not to have
>> system-config-printer by default at all.
>
> There's also a lot of people that don't want printing install by
> default at all but want control-center. Printing and all the driver
> deps are huge and there's a lot of people that use gnome without ever
> having a printer configured.

Huge? Maybe in if you are using a system from the early 90s ...
otherwise the size is hardly an issue.