From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CFC138489 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC1BF21C0F7; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06A0021C065 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:01:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 75254 invoked by uid 3782); 14 Jan 2013 17:01:33 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951A9EE.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.169.238]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:01:31 +0100 Received: (qmail 2267 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Jan 2013 16:54:47 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:54:47 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Too terse error message from emerge. Message-ID: <20130114165447.GD3274@acm.acm> References: <20130114111852.GA3274@acm.acm> <20130114113434.GA28090@dethkomp> <20130114121059.GB3274@acm.acm> <6a7cf90d-1862-4b8d-9895-e438cb3cbb72@email.android.com> <50F3FB2B.5090001@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50F3FB2B.5090001@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 78826161-c34b-415e-824e-47e5b1589fab X-Archives-Hash: 8d4cec0f76f9d286de0ae08b64f77622 Hello, Dale. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:33:47AM -0600, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> Another question - is there any sensible way of cutting the unnecessary > >> stuff out of SANE_BACKENDS? That variable is set in the ebuild, and it > >> doesn't feel the Right Thing to edit the ebuild file. > >>> -- > >>> - Yohan Pereira > > Set it in 'make.conf'. > > -- > > Joost > If you are like me and not sure what to search for, this is a example: > SANE_BACKENDS="avision" Thanks. For me it's SANE_BACKENDS="plustek". Not sure why, since it's a Canon scanner. Got that info from running sane and opening its info window. > You would almost certainly need to replace that avision. I found a used > scanner only to find out why they didn't want it either, it was broke. > lol I got mine given me by somebody who'd just upgraded to Windows 7; it didn't work in W7. Haven't you got to love Microsoft? ;-) > If you do a emerge -vp , it should show you the available > options. You could google for them to but emerge could be faster. > Hope that helps. > Dale > :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).