On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:19:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:

> 171030 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > ISTR that with use_expanded variables like this,
> > if you don't set the variable then all options are enabled,
> > so you've just built an un-Gentoolike version that works everywhere.  
> 
> That doesn't matter much beyond compile time, which is not excessive :
> Xsane will interrogate the scanner & when it's told it's an Epson V550
> it will load the appropriate driver & go from there.
> From the point of view of system maintenance,
> it's much simpler to let it do that than try to pick out the driver
> myself.

That's a fair point, as always with Gentoo the choice is yours.
 
> > You could check this by using qlist
> > to see what has been installed with and without SANE_BACKENDS set.  
> 
> 'qlist sane-backends' doesn't show anything like that.

qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane

lists the installed backends here.


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Neil Bothwick

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