Samba network printers unusable with default Fedora Desktop installs

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 14:19 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at 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-minimization.ks
> 
> 
> 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.