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

[Oliver Rauch]

I don`t think it makes sense to create several problems with
different systems in this case.

Is it really so hard to install one additional package when 
you want to use xsane as gimp plugin?

Oliver

On Friday 07 February 2003 13:05, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> 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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