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

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 24.04.2008 10:19, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> 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?

Normal install using anaconda from install-DVD (x86-64)

>  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. 

+1

> 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.

Well, most (all?) the other scanner drivers are available, so omitting 
one/a few without a good reason (at least there isn't one afaics) 
doesn't make much sense IMHO.

CU
knurd