On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 14:19 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
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. -- desktop mailing list desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktopRegarding 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?
Probably because they're huge.