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

[Rahul Sundaram]

Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> 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.

It's very much possible to do that.

http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2008/04/21/insanity/

Rahul