Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:48:45AM +0200, Jarl Friis wrote: > > I suggest the following patch to help sys-admins and package > > maintainers to use sane with the hpoj backend. > > There are many external backends, not only hpoj. I think it's the job > of the external package to either add an entry to dll.conf or document > that it's necessary to add one. > > > I just read that code-freeze for 1.0.9 is today, so in lack of time > > before code-freeze I have not been able to test the patch, but as the > > change is only comments, it shouldn't be able to destroy anything. > > We are already in feature freeze. But I'll add a TODO entry so we can > add commented out external entries for dll.conf in future. But I'm not > sure if this doesn't create too much confusion. > > > If somebody is a autoconf-guru consider the following change to scripts: > > To make configure to take an argument '--with-hpoj' that will uncomment > > the hpoj backend line. This may help package creators even more. > > Please don't. The normal user may find this configure option and > wonders why enabling it doesn't install the hpoj backend.
Well, we could add a more verbose comment like "if you want to use the XYZ backend, you must download and install the stuff from http://some.domain/and/path";. A user who knows where to find and edit dll.conf is probably able to read and understand such a note ;) Abel
