Using SANE?

[Frederic Crozat]

2010/2/9 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Ah :(

>> 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?

Yes, I mean the lib package. It is 7.7MB installed, without checking
its dependencies (of course, now, I've discovered openoffice-common is
pulling libsane by default too :(

If it could be a plugin, that would be nice :)

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Frederic Crozat