Would it actually make sense to have these packages included in a new .ISO? I remember having to install hplip to get one of my printers to work. Alternatively, by improving the help center users could be pointed toward what packages they need to install to get their hardware to work.

Would massively inflate the size of the ISO from what I can see.. Have to find out. Let's get these patches merged today and investigate the size difference

What about removing Thunderbird from the ISO to make space for hplip and other software which is more useful in a live session? Anyone who does not use online email just has to install Thunderbird from Software Centre after they finish installing Solus.

I don't think removing Thunderbird is reasonable.

I also don't think its reasonable. So hplip is the single biggest offender right now - because it depends on all the pyqt stuff and qt5-webkit and such. I could include the other bits, or parts of hplip by splitting the GUI out into a subpackage.

Things are now improved for Budgie with: {rIMGB30f88b517e8ba4e4a0417a9d6d0bfed1fffa9c45}

Gonna need to do the same for GNOME/MATE ISOs

GNOME: {rIMGG240574d04c926dd1a83ee1e55c4a0ea41d470361}

MATE: {rIMGMfdb5c3107e764eb81c25355db3326d3dec771807}

This might eventually help some users https://sourceforge.net/projects/cups-bjnp/ but tbh I have no clue if these printers are quite common or rather rare.

Yeah I'm looking ideally to defer the use of drivers to the driverless printing implementation - so that we stop packaging them all up :)

that would be great, indeed !

Also sorts out the "Oh Brother" shit show

Or should I say, Oh Brother Printers Where Art Thou?

F*ching DRMs

Long live to VPNs and Proxies!!

So do we see CUPS as blocking this issue.. ?

I gets build, but I think some more work on the package is required but without a printer it's not easy to check.
Need to check if ownership/permissions are okay

okay can be done afterwards anyway...