What the status of the unwritten rule "install all device drivers by default"

[Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>]

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