On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com wrote:
On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:26 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
I recently discovered that if I have a printer attached to a Windows machine (and shared via samba), it'll unusable on default install, because samba-client isn't installed by default.
control-center's printers panel managed to discover the printer, but after the driver prompt dialog it gave a cryptic error message and did not install the printer.
After installing samba-client, adding a samba network printer worked as expected. Therefor I suggest we add samba-client to our default installation, it's only 1.2MB.
Ideally I think it should be added as a Requires in control-center's spec file, but we could add it to comps instead. If you think adding this to the default install is a bad idea, control-center should install it with packagekit whenever users tries to add a Samba printer.
On a related (printing) note, I think it would also make sense to have hpijs as a default as well, to support more printers.
Both sound like good ideas to me.
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Regarding HP printer drivers, it seems that they are intentionally excluded from our live install. https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spin-kickstarts.git/tree/fedora-live-minim...
I can't find the commit message that explains why those drivers are removed. Does anyone on this list has any idea what the reason was and if it's still relevant?