After installing Brother MFC-9340CDW on my Mageia-5 64-bit laptop (HP EliteBook 8740W) on 24 Oct, I noticed yesterday that somehow HPLIP has gotten in too.
Frankly speaking, I was having trouble adding printer through MCC and do not remember or document the exact steps I followed. On the other hand, I do not remember opting HP drivers for Brother printer either! I did try adding Brother's drivers (from MCC GUI -- not from printer driver on CD) and it picked up 9320 drivers or something that did not work. I the end, I picked up open a source driver that works but no colour. Still have to investigate the choices carefully. Similar open source driver was driving Brother HL-4570CDW with most features.
My question is how this HPLIP is getting in? Here are some relevant info:-
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[root@localhost ~]#
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa --last | grep hplip
hplip-gui-3.14.6-8.1.mga5.x86_64 Mon 24 Oct 2016 06:20:14 PM EDT
hplip-hpijs-ppds-3.14.6-8.1.mga5.x86_64 Mon 24 Oct 2016 06:20:11 PM EDT
hplip-3.14.6-8.1.mga5.x86_64 Mon 24 Oct 2016 06:20:11 PM EDT
hplip-hpijs-3.14.6-8.1.mga5.x86_64 Mon 24 Oct 2016 06:20:10 PM EDT
hplip-model-data-3.14.6-8.1.mga5.x86_64 Tue 12 Jul 2016 02:08:47 AM EDT
[root@localhost ~]#
I prefer open source software (with no back doors or monitoring software) all the way but judging from the plethora of hardware that comes out every year, there seems to be little option other than to depend on closed source firmware if one wants to use newer devices.
Thanks.