Two new HP programm installed after upgrade to silverblue 42

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After upgrading to silverblue 42 today, I noticed two new programms being installed on my pc:

“hp-uiscan” and “HPLIP Graphic Tools”.

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But my pc never was in a network with a printer. And I certainly didn’t install those two apps.

I did a fresh install of silverblue a couple of days ago and they only appeared after upgrading to 42 today.

I don’t even know how to uninstall them, they aren’t flatpaks.

Does anyone know why they got installed on my system?

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hplip is the hp printer drivers, I suggest that they brought in new programs to help with printing.
Nothing to worry about, but if you dont print you could remove hplip and if that dosent remove the tool find their names and remove them.

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I’ve noticed that too in today’s upgrade on Silverblue. I can’t argue on the necessity of these HPLIP GUI packages, as I don’t know the reason behind it, but they certainly don’t fit well into the nice GNOME desktop, with it’s low-res icons. They also bring qt5 packages which weren’t in Silverblue’s base install.

This is what rpm-ostree db diff shows as added packages:

Added:
  dejavu-sans-fonts-2.37-25.fc42.noarch
  hplip-gui-3.25.2-1.fc42.aarch64
  python-qt5-rpm-macros-5.15.11-6.fc42.noarch
  python3-chardet-5.2.0-16.fc42.noarch
  python3-pyqt5-sip-12.16.1-2.fc42.aarch64
  python3-qt5-5.15.11-6.fc42.aarch64
  python3-qt5-base-5.15.11-6.fc42.aarch64
  python3-reportlab-4.3.1-1.fc42.noarch
  qt5-qtconnectivity-5.15.16-2.fc42.aarch64
  qt5-qtlocation-5.15.16-3.fc42.aarch64
  qt5-qtmultimedia-5.15.16-2.fc42.aarch64
  qt5-qtsensors-5.15.16-2.fc42.aarch64
  qt5-qtserialport-5.15.16-2.fc42.aarch64
  qt5-qttools-common-5.15.16-2.fc42.noarch
  qt5-qttools-libs-designer-5.15.16-2.fc42.aarch64
  qt5-qttools-libs-help-5.15.16-2.fc42.aarch64
  qt5-qtwebchannel-5.15.16-2.fc42.aarch64
  qt5-qtwebsockets-5.15.16-2.fc42.aarch64

You can remove the HPLIP GUI packages with sudo rpm-ostree override remove hplip-gui. Doing this will remove both GUI apps you’ve noticed in the App Overview.

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Tracked in [SB42] hplip-gui was added to the base image · Issue #646 · fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker · GitHub.

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Thanks a lot guys!