Comment 27 for bug 399522

I ran some tests that are documented in Bug 331163 Comment 2 [1] that shows that my system does not work with the new patch (Listed as [3] above).
  [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331163#c2
  [3] http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49192341/core_install.patch

I think that part of the problem is that I don't have the qt4 use flag enabled. The documentation states that -u is for gui (normal default) and -i is for interactive. If I run hp-setup -i, it gives an error indicating an unrecognized option. Running hp-setup with no arguments works and run in interactive mode. This is also true of hp-plugin. To me, the correct solution is to find out why -i is not accepted when USE=-qt4 and fix that (then the old patch is not needed). The error message from hp-setup -i is attached. The funny part is that the error message shows usage info for -i and even includes examples of using -i and then complains that -i is invalid.

Here are my use flags for hplip:
qwerty ~ $ emerge -pv =net-print/hplip-3.10.6

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild UD] net-print/hplip-3.10.6 [3.10.6-r1] USE="X hpcups libnotify
scanner -doc -fax -hpijs -minimal -parport -policykit -qt4 -snmp -static-ppds
-udev-acl" 0 kB [1=>0]

Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Portage tree and overlays:
 [0] /usr/portage
 [1] /usr/local/overlay/

Note that I currently have a version my a local overlay installed that requires
dbus-python and applies the "old" patch (I want printing to work while this bug
is being processed). I had the portage version installed when I ran the tests in bug 331163.