Bugzilla – Bug 494547
Useful printer drivers not installed by default
Last modified: 2009-04-17 08:18:15 UTC
See bug #492690 for the context of this bug. The Live CD for GNOME does not install "good" printer drivers by default, as cups-drivers, hplip, gutenprint, and manufacturer-PPDs were missing after installation. Only the deprecated Omni drivers were installed.
Well, that's 40MB worth of RPMs. What other parts do you want to have removed?
I add the following: +// #494547 - just testing +cups-drivers +manufacturer-PPDs and locked everything said to be not strictly needed: +<!-- see http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-04/msg00090.html --> +<lock package="cups-backends"/> +<lock package="ghostscript-omni"/> +<lock package="gutenprint"/> +<lock package="hplip"/> Let's see how much the live cds grow
Hmm, I didn't consider the size of the LiveCD. I had no idea they were so full :) If anything, the LiveCD should not contain Omni drivers if those are unmaintained/buggy/etc. The printer setup tools should offer to download/install whatever drivers you need once you try to setup a printer.
manufacturer-PPDs is also not strictly required (see my addedum mail on opensuse-factory) A minimal but still useful printing locally stack should be cups cups-client cups-drivers and all what those strictly require via RPM requirements. The question with such a minimal printing locally stack on a LiveCD is that the drivers in cups-drivers - provide only basic support for many printers - many current inkjet printer models are not explicitely listed via PPDs in cups-drivers so that the user must manually find and select a compatible model - for several current inkjet printer models there is no driver in cups-drivers so that it cannot work to find and select a compatible model in cups-drivers which may lead to long and frustrating and hopeless attempts by the user to find and select a compatible model in cups-drivers until the user finally gives up In the end the printing experience might be poor or annoying so that the user might pubish a negative statement like "openSUSE sucks because it doesn't print". Additionally yast2-printer might be nice to have ;-) see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492690#c3 --------------------------------------------------------------- I just tried to add the printer again from YaST. It offered me the Omni driver, so I clicked on "add driver", removed Omni, and added Gutenprint plus the normal PostSript driver. Eventually it said that PostScript was the recommended one; I chose that one and printing works now. ---------------------------------------------------------------
about what live cd are we talking anyway? the 11.1 GNOME live cd does not install ghostscript-omni.
ghostscript-omni is installed by installing additional packages because ghostscript-library recommends it. I guess you should talk to Werner
I've no problem to run s/^Recommends:/Suggests:/ on the spec file ... and if IBM would not insist on Omni I'd like to drop it as it is not maintained the last few years.
Both ghostscript-library.spec: "Suggests: ghostscript-omni" and drop ghostscript-omni are perfectly fine for me.
597563392 openSUSE-Factory-GNOME-LiveCD-i586-i686-Build0051-Media.iso 623732736 openSUSE-Factory-GNOME-LiveCD-i586-i686-Build0054-Media.iso 582535168 openSUSE-Factory-KDE4-LiveCD-x86_64-Build0051-Media.iso 606920704 openSUSE-Factory-KDE4-LiveCD-x86_64-Build0054-Media.iso OK, with the restricted list of packages to install, it's ~25MB - it would be great if someone checked the factory livecds on their printing capabilities (http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/) For ghosctscript-omni please open a new bug - or fix it right away as you please.