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On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:07:18AM +0200, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:41:37PM -0500, Frank Zago wrote: > > Since this is a recurrent issue, sane-find-scanner and maybe (x)scanima= ge,=20 > > could test for the presence of 2 sane installation and issue a warning. > >=20 > > Testing for the presence of libsane.so in 2 or more directories should= =20 > > suffice. >=20 > Well, configure of sane-backends already prints a warning, if there is > a SANE installation at a different prefix. If this doesn't work, we > should fix it. Further more, it's stated in man sane, that you should > check, if another installation is there. >=20 > I don't think that frontends should make any assumptions on > backend-related stuff, e.g. check for dll.conf. And sometimes having > installed several versions in different places is intentional. I don't > want a warning in this case with every call of scanimage or > sane-find-scanner. =2E.. and in this case it would not even have worked: The problem here was that the user had just the configuration files in two places (not two complete Sane installations). The "real" configuratio files were in /usr/etc, which is usually not a place that's used for config files. What about putting a warning into configure when the config files go into such a strange place (that is not in /etc or /usr/local/etc)? Karl Heinz --=20 Karl Heinz Kremer [email protected] PGP Key at http://www.khk.net/download/khk.asc EPSON Sane Backend: http://www.khk.net --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9unNixejv3RfKrhsRArIBAKDOUQMvfq9f0BjYu0MIkgMBlUMUnwCfYyXB Lm6ec/2pRFITOIHPre2pVCY= =ObJI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--
