[Clfs-dev] CBLFS -- query on wiki edit just done....

[Andrew Rowland]

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 20:57 +1000, db m wrote:
> Greets,
> 
> The Hplip package (hplip-2.8.2) apparently requires the sane-backend
> package
> to be available , to make scanner support available to hplip itself.
> 
> The hplip   'configure'   script states ;
> 
> --enable-scan-build    enable scanner build (default=yes)
> 
> 
> 
> Ergo, if you don't have sane-backends installed (or else don't want
> scanner
> support in hplip), the current build commands for hplip should have
> the ;
> 
> 
> --disable-scan-build
> 
> 
> configure option added to the existing command blocks.
> 
> 
> What I've done instead, is merely added the  'SANE'  entry into the
> list of   'Required Packages'  , and as such no other changes need be
> made to the hplip commands at all  -- people just have to build &
> install
> sane-backends (and optionally here sane-frontends) package(s) before 
> building hplip.
> 
> 
> The 'other' alternative, would be to make SANE an optional package,
> append the '--disable-scan-build' to all the relevant command blocks,
> and have a *Note saying to remove this switch if indeed people do
> want scanner support in hplip....which sort of sounds convoluted to
> me.

> My query is, have I done the right thing here, or do we wish to have
> the alternative (but more succinct) approach in the wiki?
> 
> (I couldn't make up my mind, and in the end concluded a rationale of
> "Many folks have PSC type machines now, lotsa folks want scanning
> functionality anyway, if-so-facto....be lazy."   ;-)

There is a template for the Wiki pages -->
http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/Page_Template.  We encourage its
use (very strongly).

The template contains as section for configuration options.  In
describing the option(s) in this section (when used) it is polite to
point out in some way the default selection made by the developers.  In
this particular case, I would (and did) classify the SANE package as
recommended, but certainly not required, to build hplip.

> Regards,
> 
> Don
> 
> 
> 
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