Re: [gentoo-dev] local USE flag "gimp" for xsane

[Patrick Kursawe]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:21:29AM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> maillog: 05/09/2005-11:17:47(-0400): Nathan L. Adams types

> > Or how about an xsane flag for GIMP that makes the xsane plugin a
> > dependency. :)
>
> There *is* an xsane flag for GIMP. Well, it's called "scanner" but it
> does what you intended in your post.
>
> I'm guessing that the problem is that without a useflag for xsane,
> dependencies cannot be tracked properly. xsane is linked against
> libgimp-2.0 on my system, but gimp is not a dependency of xsane.

Exactly that was the reason.

And, of course: You can build the GIMP without xsane.
But you can't build xsane as a plugin for GIMP without GIMP.

Bye, Patrick