Description of problem: libsane-hpaio IMHO should be installed by default, as we normally install all the device drivers by default as long as it doesn't do any harm. Related Discussion: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-April/msg01814.html More information: From reading Bug 430834 I suppose libsane-hpaio was actually installed by default in F8 due to that dep that was removed earlier this year to reduce dependency bloat.
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
I think we can probably make this a lot better by splitting out the pure library parts (libhpip and libhpmud) of hplip into, say, hplip-libs. Then we can add libsane-hpaio as a 'default install' package alongside SANE, still avoiding an explicit dependency in sane-backends.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Sub-package split done; keeping open for libsane-hpaio in default package set alongside sane.
Changing component and reassigning.
Done.