Bug 388149

I can fix the default install of the DVD in recommending one of the choices in patterns. But I can't do that on the CD as the requirements of this stack is pretty huge - so yast2-printer needs a way to force the replacement. Most likely a function missing in yast2-pkg-bindings to force resolve - or it's there and just needs to be called.

recommending hplip in DVD pattern now

Michal,
as there is YST 'text freeze' we cannot show a message
if hpijs-standalone is installed.

Therefore test if hplip + hplip-hpijs are available
(remember that Package::Available returns 'nil'
 if even no package source is available)
and if hplip + hplip-hpijs are available,
simply remove hpijs-standalone silently
before installing hplip + hplip-hpijs.

This is sufficient because there is a message that
hplip is to be installed and if a user had installed
hpijs-standalone intentionally, he should know
what "hplip" means.

fixed in yast2-printer-2.16.31
there is ugly hack with changing textdomain (to use strings from "base" package), but it works

*** Bug 330063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I installed openSUSE 11.0 from DVD9 and it seems that this is not fixed for me. hpijs-standalone was installed by default. IIRC it worked fine with a DVD5.

Not fixed with openSUSE 11.0 GM (retail DVD9).

>> it seems that this is not fixed for me
Please explain what did you do and what did you expect

I installed openSUSE 11.0 (retail DVD9). YaST detected my HP 6540 printer and built the printer database but the model field was empty. I tried to select the model manually but it was not in the list (I looked for a 6500 or 6520 because there is no 6540 atm, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/235148). Then I checked which packages are installed. On my machine only hpijs-standalone was there. After I removed this package and installed hplip YaST detected my printer and chose the 6520 ppd (which is correct atm). This is what I expected because it works without problems on openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3.

I can confirm that it seems to be not fixed at all
(i.e. not fixed in the patterns for DVD):

I installed on my workstation in the Suse network
"openSUSE_DVD 11.0 GM i386" from
nfs://.../SLP/openSUSE-11.0-RC4-DVD/i386/DVD1
and hpijs-standalone was installed by default
instead of hplip + hplip-hpijs.

If it is the same on the DVDs for our customers,
it would be very annoying for our customers
because it makes setup of most HP printers
impossible for normal users.

*** Bug 421819 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 421812 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

To avoid this ugly problem in the future (i.e. for openSUSE 11.1)
I changed the "Conflicts: hpijs-standalone" in hplip-hpijs
to "Obsoletes: hpijs-standalone".
Right now I submitted hplip to STABLE (i.e. for openSUSE 11.1).

Now when hplip is to be installed (e.g. by YaST),
hplip requires hplip-hpijs and this would now silently
supersede an installed hpijs-standalone.

The drawback is that now YaST could silently replace
an intentional minimalist hpijs-standalone installation
by the full-featured HPLIP installation (which could
pull in tons of other necessary packages - in particular
on a minimalist server system).

*** Bug 424151 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

To get rid of this ugly problem once and for all in the future
(i.e. for openSUSE 11.1 and later) I dropped the
hpijs-standalone package.

Nevertheless in case of an update or in case of whatever
strange package repositories in YaST, the hpijs-standalone
package might still be somewhere available for installation
and then the above RPM Conflicts and Obsoletes should help.