[sane-devel] Why does xsane-gimp exist ?
Julien BLACHE
jb@jblache.org
Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:05:25 +0100
Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de> wrote:
Hi,
> The distributors usually create two or more binary packages because
> otherwise you'd need to install gimp as a dependency of xsane. As gimp
> is a rather big package, this may not make sense for everyone. So
> there is one package with and one without gimp support.
As you know, I dropped the xsane-gimp1.2 package in Debian and built
the xsane package with GIMP support.
As a sort of workaround to this, wouldn't it be possible to dlopen()
the libgimp at startup, if run as a GIMP plugin ?
JB.
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