hp-setup doesn't run

Sven Lankes sven at lank.es
Tue Jul 28 08:07:29 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:55:19AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:

>> yum install hplip-gui
>> It will also drag in the required PyQt4 stuff.

> Yes, that was all it was.  This isn't intuitive, though.  If you can't use 
> hplip to set up your printer without installing hplip-gui, then shouldn't that 
> be linked as a dependency (even though it's sort of the other way around ;-) 
> )?

The reason for the missing dependency is that it would pull in all of qt
and pyqt which gnome-fanboys aren't very happy about (not to offend any
of them - we aren't very happy about having to depend on gtk in our
default spin either).

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