-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-09-13 20:09, John M Andersen wrote:
There are a LOT of packages that get installed without explicit selection, including drivers for many different types of printers.
Having hplip installed causes no particular problems. It probably shouldn't be started automatically, but having it installed is no different than having cups installed.
There are two ways to packaging decisions. One is to have everything that you might ever need installed, or at least recommended, to makes things easy when using the system (the kernel does this, it has drivers for everything possible, but most of them as modules). Space is cheap nowdays, and so is bandwidth - but not always, not everywhere. The other method is to install the minimal amount possible, and instead install what is necessary later, on demand, automatic or manual. Both things are not possible, and each person wants one of the methods and dislikes the other :-) On the other hand, we have another issue: recommended packages are handled differently since 13.2. It is not easy to disable them. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlX18voACgkQja8UbcUWM1z3dwD+KyKO1SXz86oBm5AWhPF5dhbr LwrPj63dK96zgFxegSsA/jqzc0bdiTe1SCE8f/dleNcAgplJqGXpLiOLw42+1u/9 =j5oc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org