Am 15.11.2011 17:53, schrieb Julien BLACHE:
Most people using libsane will need scanimage at some point, because it's used extensively in documentation. Others won't need/want it and are free to do away with it. That's exactly what Recommends is for.
I wouldn't say I am "using" libsane, I don't even have access to a scanner device on this system. It's not that I installed it on purpose, I am using software that depends on software that depends on it. And I end up with a package that contains utilities and a daemon.
OTOH, I have used my own scanner with SANE (mostly with the xsane frontend) on another system and I have never ever felt the need to use any of the tools in sane-utils.
As for saned, it's disabled by default. Do you really want yet another package for a single executable, its manpage and an initscript?
Yes, why not. I'd consider it good practise to have a separate sane-daemon package. Many other packages have already done this split. And the fact that the daemon is disabled by default does not hide the fact that the package raised two debconf questions during installation.
Please reconsider your decision regarding libsane recommending sane-utils. - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
