On 12/19/2012 12:00 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:58 AM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Am 19.12.2012 15:29, schrieb Ozan Çağlayan: >>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> because most people the days are using network-printers >>>>> even the cheap HP printers having WLAN/LAN and working without >>>>> any windows crap >>>> Agree but it doesn't change the fact that there are still plenty of >>>> printers shared through Windows. >>> maybe, but you have to read manuals all the time and can not >>> expect to have anything working out-of-the-box, there are >>> even people not owning a printer at all >> I disagree you should not have to read manuals all the time to do >> basic tasks like printing. >> >> @Ozan: File a bug and ask for the dep to be added. > I think printing should be something that just works as well but there > is a significant space cost to adding samba-client: > > # yum info samba-client > Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, changelog, presto, refresh-packagekit, > : remove-with-leaves, rpm-warm-cache > Installed Packages > Name : samba-client > Arch : x86_64 > Epoch : 2 > Version : 3.6.9 > Release : 96.fc17.1 > Size : 39 M > Repo : installed > From repo : updates > Summary : Samba client programs > URL : http://www.samba.org/ > License : GPLv3+ and LGPLv3+ > Description : The samba-client package provides some SMB/CIFS clients to > : complement the built-in SMB/CIFS filesystem in Linux. These > : clients allow access of SMB/CIFS shares and printing to SMB/CIFS > : printers. > > Perhaps there's a way to support SMB printing without 39MB of > additional disk usage? > > Richard Alternatively, maybe the dialog that searches for network printers can offer the option to install the necessary packages when first loaded, if the user has a way to indicate that their particular network printer was not found. More work, possibly the best compromise. I imagine this behaving in much the same was as searching for and installing drivers for printers would within the very same user-facing application. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
