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

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 08:19:02 UTC 2008


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?

Did you install from Live CD or a DVD?  I think that might be a clear 
distinction to be made on that one, but it would probably be best to have those 
drivers just get into the install by default.  But.. the unwritten rule I think 
is primarily for X, video, keyboards, input, etc, I don't think 
printers/scanners/cameras are really included in that.

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