foomatic/hplip vs hpcups drivers

[JD]

  Just wanted to know if the foomatic hplip drivers
and the hpcups drivers are mutually exclusive?

Reason I ask is that the foomatic hplip project
configured itself (when I installed it) so that
none of the hplip drivers got installed, but
the hpcups drivers did.

This sourceforge project provides the shell script
that builds and installs the binaries. User does
not get to play with configure.