I think it's best if openprinting.org become the "trusted" repository for all printer driver packages. Fedora (and other distros) add openprinting.org as default printer driver repository. So there's no need to maintain different packages for each distribution.
-----Original Message----- From: Till Kamppeter [mailto:till.kamppeter@gmail.com] Sent: Fri 5/28/2010 4:25 AM To: Tim Waugh Cc: George Liu; system-config-printer-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org; Bin Li Subject: Re: Tagging PPD package with DeviceID.
On 05/06/2010 01:47 PM, Tim Waugh wrote:
Currently system-config-printer uses these mechanisms for installing things
- PackageKit (driver packages, distribution-provided and 3rd-party)
- Jockey (driver packages, 3rd-party)
- OpenPrinting web query (driver PPDs only, 3rd party)
I hope to phase out the OpenPrinting web query mechanism in favour of PackageKit once all the pieces are in place. Similarly with Jockey, if possible.
I think the Jockey approach is still needed, as it allows to access OpenPrinting as one-stop location for querying driver availability. The OpenPrinting database can reference to drivers which are hosted at arbitrary locations. The PackageKit approach which is only based on in-package printer-driver-relation data would need a list of all driver host locations to find drivers. So if a manufacturer introduces a new driver repository, all distributions would need to add this repository to their lists.
Till