On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 14:19 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop > > > 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. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
