Using Gnome control panel to add a network printer now requires FirewallD

It appears a patch was added to Gnome back in July that requires FirewallD to be running in order to add a network printer.
see: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2011-July/msg09761.html

You can still add the printer in Unity's control panel, but users wanting to use Gnome will encounter this. Maybe FirewallD is all that and a bag of chips, I don't know, but I don't think user's should be forced to use it when especially since there are no Ubuntu or Debian packages for it. As far as I know, FirewallD is a Fedora-specific item, and not that it can't be ported, it's just that I'm wondering why Gnome devs thought it was a good idea to have a distro-specific requirement for an unrelated function. (Wayland is sounding better all the time)

Anyway, the question is can we get a work around for this or would it be better to add FirewallD and related packages to the repository?