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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 23:48:57
Message-Id: 20171101234839.3f392def@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends by Philip Webb
1 On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 17:28:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
2
3 > 171101 Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:26:15 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
5 > >> 'qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane'
6 > >> Here all I get is :
7 > >> root:552 log> qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane
8 > >> /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so.1
9 > >> /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so
10 > >> /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so.1.0.27
11 > >> root:553 log>
12 > > Which looks like you have no backends installed, so why does it
13 > > work?
14 >
15 > root:560 lib64> ls -l sane
16 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Oct 29 22:23 libsane-dll.so ->
17 > libsane-dll.so.1.0.27 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Oct 29 22:23
18 > libsane-dll.so.1 -> libsane-dll.so.1.0.27 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35248
19 > Oct 29 22:23 libsane-dll.so.1.0.27 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 955 Jun
20 > 20 2016 libsane-epkowa.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 May 5 18:06
21 > libsane-epkowa.so.1 -> libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.15 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root
22 > 295080 Jun 20 2016 libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.15 root:561 lib64>
23 >
24 > There is a driver left from the previous update.
25 >
26 > Any explanation why it's still there ?
27
28 Something broke...[1]
29
30 > Anyway clearly, your previous explanation
31 > -- that if no backend is specified, all are enabled -- was off-target
32 > (smile).
33
34 It was a suggestion not an explanation, I did prefix it with ISTR ;-)
35 Reading the ebuild now, it is clear that one specified backends are
36 installed.
37
38 [1] do you really think I'm going to say anything more specific
39 than that now :P
40
41
42 --
43 Neil Bothwick
44
45 Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.

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Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>