Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Hi all!
In the past we IIRC had unwritten rules like "disk space is cheap thus
install all device drivers by default" and "enable all device drivers by
default in the configs if that doesn't do any harm, as that way devices
will 'just work' without any manual configuration by the user".
Do we still follow those unwritten rules? I just installed a HP
printer/scanner on a system with a fresh Fedora 9 preview install and
had to manually install the libsane-hpaio package to make the scanner
work. Is that intended behavior or would we consider this a bug?
Cu
knurd
If we automatically installed all the userspace hardware enablement packages,
the dependency cascade would exceed the size of a CD. The kernel has the USB
infrastructure you need built in, but we have to draw the line somewhere.
Personally, I think it would be wonderful if we had a hardware setup wizard that
would recommend additional packages like this, but I don't think it's a bug that
we omit libsane-hpaio from the default install.
-- Chris
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