[sane-devel] Why does xsane-gimp exist ?

[Julien BLACHE]

Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning at 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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