hplip: hp-toolbox advertising?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 09:29 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 18:51 +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
> > But it could be a task for system-config-printer - it detects printers
> > and installs printer specific packages. It could be perhaps some
> > connection between driver name and required packages.
> 
> It does in fact already do this. :-)
> 
> Unfortunately I don't know of a good hook for 'now install this package,
> prompting the user first', so all it currently does it tell the user the
> name of the package they should install.
> 
> Anyone know how to make that better?

The system-install-packages tool included in pirut has support now for
just giving package names in addition to local packages.  That gives a
pretty easy way to launch "install a package named foo"

Jeremy