Hi it is useful to have the backends ebuild only build needed backends. An ebuild for this is available at http://git.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/?p=overlay.git;a=blob;f=media-gfx/sane-backends/sane-backends-1.0.17.ebuild Please add it to the live portage tree, so all users can take advantage of it :)
Diego, it looks like you're quite busy working on sane-backends. Would you perhaps like to maintain it?
is there a herd for sane-backends? Maybe we can all just work together ..
(Note that the url now does not work anymore as I replaced gitweb with gitarella, the new one is http://git.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/overlay/media-gfx/sane-backends/sane-backends-1.0.17.ebuild ) I still have the scanner offline right now and I'm forced to restart the laptop in OSX to be able to use it, as I got again problem with firmware loading (seems like after an udev update, unfortunately both the G/FreeBSD boxes I have here have only USB 1.1 so no way for my scanner), so I don't think I can do much about it, not until I get it to work again, a part ebuild and build testing.
I've made an start to split off the sane-backends package into several ones (ie. one for libsanei, one for libsane and one per backend) quite some time ago. Help would be very appreciated :)
(In reply to comment #4) > I've made an start to split off the sane-backends package into several ones > (ie. one for libsanei, one for libsane and one per backend) quite some time > ago. Help would be very appreciated :) Somehow I fail to see the advantage. Could you elaborate on this?
obviously no one likes to commit this, people with flameeyes overlay will get it, others not.
