On Mon 27 Jul 2020 at 18:39:45 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Brian (12020-07-27): > > libsane-hpaio needs CUPS to deal with scanners? Imagination is a great > > asset. Sometimes! > > If you do not believe me, just RTFS or use ldd and nm to check.
Ok, libsane-hpaio requires libcups.so.2. That's nowhere near requiring CUPS, in particular cups-daemon. The printing system is not involved with scanning. -- Brian