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<h1>Re: Sane config thoughts</h1>
<b>Hugo van der Kooij</b> (<a href="mailto:hvdkooij@caiw.nl"><i>hvdkooij@caiw.nl</i></a>)<br>
<i>Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:34:55 +0200 (CEST)</i>
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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Tripp Lilley wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Oliver Rauch wrote:</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; The "normal" user does use a binary and that has to come with all backends</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; - or do you like to create dozens of sane-binaries -- for each scanner or</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; backend one?</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; John -- Oliver makes a good point, but I come to a different conclusion</i><br>
<i>&gt; than he does :-) Instead of investing your time in building patches to the</i><br>
<i>&gt; source side, and instead of building "dozens of sane binaries" (which, I</i><br>
<i>&gt; realize, was not at all your original suggestion), consider building a</i><br>
<i>&gt; thoughtful RPM -- perhaps one that prompts the user for which backend(s)</i><br>
<i>&gt; they'd like to install.</i><br>
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The current RPM split is 3way.<br>
 - SANE itself (all backends) about 2 MB<br>
 - SANE clients (scanimage/xscanimage/xcam) about 250 kB<br>
 - SANE development (the libraries) about 3.7 MB<br>
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Most installations wil require only the first two and you will end up with<br>
less then 2.5 MB<br>
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Splitting up the lot for all the backends will result in 21 more packages.<br>
Which will result in a lot of confusement for those that want to download<br>
the files but don't know which one to take.<br>
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There is maybe 1.5 MB diskspace to win but the cost of utterly confused<br>
people is not worth that gain. I mean: Scanning a normal photo will result<br>
in about 5 to 10MB of data.<br>
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All in all: no further splitting up will be done.<br>
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Hugo.<br>
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