Samba network printers unusable with default Fedora Desktop installs

[Elad Alfassa]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 13:31 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 14:19 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> At some point in the past, installing hp printing support packages would
> clutter the menu with hp logos and items. That could also be the
> reason.
>
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hpijs (which contains most of the useful drivers) is about 8.5MB. Since we
are no longer limited to the archaic size of a CD (our Live
Desktop image is around 1GB last time I checked) we can probably add hpijs
without worrying about media size

Regarding logos and items in the menu, this does not seem to be the case
today: those ugly things now reside in hplip-gui.


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-Elad Alfassa.
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