What the status of the unwritten rule "install all device drivers by default"
Andrew Farris
lordmorgul at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 08:19:02 UTC 2008
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> In the past we IIRC had unwritten rules like "disk space is cheap thus
> install all device drivers by default" and "enable all device drivers by
> default in the configs if that doesn't do any harm, as that way devices
> will 'just work' without any manual configuration by the user".
>
> Do we still follow those unwritten rules? I just installed a HP
> printer/scanner on a system with a fresh Fedora 9 preview install and
> had to manually install the libsane-hpaio package to make the scanner
> work. Is that intended behavior or would we consider this a bug?
Did you install from Live CD or a DVD? I think that might be a clear
distinction to be made on that one, but it would probably be best to have those
drivers just get into the install by default. But.. the unwritten rule I think
is primarily for X, video, keyboards, input, etc, I don't think
printers/scanners/cameras are really included in that.
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