On 10/16/2011 05:54 PM, Roger Leigh wrote:
These should be fixed fairly simply: let's just define a consistent
set of naming conventions and migrate the relevant packages. It would
be nice to have a means of mapping a given printer model to required
package(s) to support and configure printing, perhaps using the
OpenPrinting/Foomatic database?
What red Hat does here is that every printer driver package package
provides a virtual package for each printer it supports where the name
of each virtual package is composed of the MFG and MDL fields of the
printer ID. So if a printer gets detected, something like
apt-get install driver-<make>-<model>
would install a driver for the printer. The driver package could depend
on additional needed packages. The exact name string for the virtual
packages should follow the same scheme as for Red Hats RPM packages so
that it is easier to create distribution-indpendent packages which are
created as RPM and alienized to DEB.
With this in place we do not need to have all our printer drivers on the
CD and it is still easy to install our driver packages. Even LSB
packages of manufacturers could be marked that way to have alternative
possibilities to find and select them. But we should continue to also
offer the AppStore-like approach with a centralized database as
OpenPrinting is doing it.
Till
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