I was puzzled about being unable to configure a remote printer until I figure out I needed to enable "snmp" USE flag for that. I was then unsure if maybe would be a good idea to support network printers by default enabling this USE by default :/ What do you think? Best regards
Hm, I haven't had such a request in the years I am maintaining hplip. So you are probably the only one having trouble :-) What about changing the use flag description for snmp instead to make things clearer. Add support for net-analyzer/net-snmp which enables this driver to work over networks i.e. enable support for the configuration of remote printers (both for server and client)
It maybe depends on the environment where network prints are used... at home I never needed it as printer was connected directly via USB... but at job I tend to always find network prints instead :/ Then, the problem will probably affect to people needing to use such printers (that maybe are not so common but I still don't see why not make them work by default). It was a bit sad to see how I was able to simply get printer configured automatically on Linux Mint and, when I installed Gentoo in that computer, see how it didn't work until I figure out that USE flag needed to be enabled :| (and also learn what snmp is and how that is related with "network" printers)
please - at least put a big bold red blinking ewarn into the ebuild to set snmp IUSE flag to get network access (wifi) - this missing snmp USE flag had stolen me hours today *grmpf*
This is fixed in Git now with the version bump to 3.16.5.
