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

Lubomir Kundrak lkundrak at redhat.com
Thu Apr 24 09:28:05 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 09:47 +0200, 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?

I'm wondering whether we'll have some "hal - PackageKit - something"
magic to provide you with a nice notification bubble that suggest you
click a link to install the required package.

-- 
Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)




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