Bugzilla Bug 101841

Having the scanner USE flag pulls in the xsane package before the GIMP. 
However, the xsane configure needs to see some GIMP files inorder to build the
xscanimage executable with GIMP support.  The correct link is present in the
plug-in directory and xscanimage is listed as loaded in the GIMP loading screen,
but the ..acquire option is missing in the menu.  I guess this is only a problem
in fresh installs or those with no previous version of the GIMP.  

The quick solution is just to emerge xsane a second time, but it could be good
to sort something out in the ebuild.  

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1.An install without a previous copy of the GIMP, USE flag contains scanner
2.emerge gimp
3.check acquire menu option

Actual Results:  
Scanner options are missing in the GIMP

Expected Results:  
On my system two XSANE options should be listed

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-350263-highlight-xscanimage.html

My first Bug listing, hope it is okay.  pablored

Thanks for reporting this.

This will be sorted out soon, I see why this happens.

This bug is somewhat related:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93018

This sounds related to the problem I just had. 
 
New system with USE="scanner gimp", did an emerge gimp, media-gfx/xsane-0.97, a 
prerequisite of Gimp when using USE=scanner, fails to install. I'm guessing 
because xsane uses USE=gimp, setting up a circular dependency on fresh 
installs. 
 
My quick and dirty workaround (scanner and gimp are in make.conf USE flags): 
USE=-scanner emerge gimp;emerge gimp 

fixed in CVS.