What the status of the unwritten rule "install all device drivers by default"
Chris Snook
csnook at redhat.com
Tue Apr 29 19:27:34 UTC 2008
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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