The student project mentioned in comment #10 was now successfully concluded. I have mentored Vitor Baptista in the Google Summer of Code 2010 exactly for this. He finished it today and I applied it to the HPLIP package (binary: hplip-data) and also to foomatic-db (binaries: openprinting-ppds and openprinting-ppds-extra) in Maverick, saving near 60 MB in an installed system.
The student project mentioned in comment #10 was now successfully concluded. I have mentored Vitor Baptista in the Google Summer of Code 2010 exactly for this. He finished it today and I applied it to the HPLIP package (binary: hplip-data) and also to foomatic-db (binaries: openprinting-ppds and openprinting- ppds-extra) in Maverick, saving near 60 MB in an installed system.