Re: Using SANE?

[Frederic Crozat <fred crozat net>]

2010/2/9 Richard Hughes <hughsient 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" ? ;)

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.
-- 
Frederic Crozat