Using SANE?

[Richard Hughes]

On 9 February 2010 14:01, Frederic Crozat <fred at crozat.net> wrote:
> 2010/2/9 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
>> I'm thinking of using SANE (rather than udev like we do now) to get
>> the list of scanners, and hopefully to be able to change settings on
>> the device. It also allows us to change remote devices, not just
>> locally plugged in USB ones. Is sane-backends-libs a problem for you
>> distro guys? I'm not sure if it's installed by default on most
>> distros, but it does pull in a few deps.
>
> How about using PackageKit to install it "on demand" ? ;)

Heh, this would be a library dep, not a tool dep.

> gnome-color-manager is installed "by default" in Mandriva 2010.0 but
> I'd like to keep sane ouf of the default install, if we can.

You mean sane-backends-libs, rather than sane itself, right?

Richard.