Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

171101 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:26:15 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> 'qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane'
>> Here all I get is :
>>   root:552 log> qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane
>>     /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so.1
>>     /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so
>>     /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so.1.0.27
>>   root:553 log>
> Which looks like you have no backends installed, so why does it work?

  root:560 lib64> ls -l sane
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     21 Oct 29 22:23 libsane-dll.so -> libsane-dll.so.1.0.27
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     21 Oct 29 22:23 libsane-dll.so.1 -> libsane-dll.so.1.0.27
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  35248 Oct 29 22:23 libsane-dll.so.1.0.27
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    955 Jun 20  2016 libsane-epkowa.la
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     24 May  5 18:06 libsane-epkowa.so.1 -> libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.15
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 295080 Jun 20  2016 libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.15
  root:561 lib64>

There is a driver left from the previous update.

Any explanation why it's still there ?

Anyway clearly, your previous explanation
-- that if no backend is specified, all are enabled -- was off-target (smile).

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