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

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 25.04.2008 01:44, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 09:47 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> libsane-hpaio
> I seem to remember some of the hp stuff being left off this list as at
> the time they would drag in QT and a host of other things which wouldn't
> typically be there on a default (GNOME) install.  That may have changed
> in recent time and thus the HP stuff should get added into the default
> set.

Afaics that stuff is in hplip-gui these days

$ repoquery hplip-gui --requires | grep -i qt
PyQt
$ repoquery hplip libsane-hpaio --requires | grep -i qt
$

BTW, I filed a bug in between:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444016

Related issue I noticed while at it: I'm wondering if the split in hplip 
and libsane-hpaio is worth the trouble in any case, as hplip tracks in 
sane-backends-libs (which again tracks in sane-backends) while 
libsane-hpaio itself is quite small:

$ repoquery hplip  --requires | grep -i sane
libsane.so.1()(64bit)
$ repoquery -qi libsane-hpaio | grep Size
Size        : 58776

CU
knurd