[sane-devel] CanoScan LiDE20 - broken driver and so

[m. allan noah]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:36:23PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>> Dont think so. Of course we can assume that these packages only fit
>> together with matching releases.
>>
>> The point is to get them built separately and put them into
>> separate packages.
>
> Most backends use common infrastructure. I don't think it's useful to
> separate this or even duplicate it.
>

dont confuse 'easy' with 'useful', henning. i have been doing some 
embedded linux work lately, and would like the ability to install 
individual backends easily. that said, this is mostly a distro problem, 
not one that can only be handled in sane, and i deal with it via 
post-compile install/packaging scripts, which works ok.

allan

> Bye,
>  Henning
>
>

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