On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 12:16 -0500, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: > > 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. Yes, this. I've always wondered why we don't take advantage of this possibility more. Part of the point of PackageKit is that it provides a handy API for apps to do this: conditionally require the installation of some package or other. It could be used for several 'hardware enablement' cases besides this one, but we always just seem to think in limited 'either make it a hard RPM dependency or ignore it' terms. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
