Henning Meier-Geinitz <henn...@meier-geinitz.de> writes: > Hi, > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:24:51PM +0200, abel deuring wrote: > > > > If somebody is a autoconf-guru consider the following change to scripts: > > > > To make configure to take an argument '--with-hpoj' that will uncomment > > > > the hpoj backend line. This may help package creators even more. > > > > > > Please don't. The normal user may find this configure option and > > > wonders why enabling it doesn't install the hpoj backend. > > > > Well, we could add a more verbose comment like "if you want to use the > > XYZ backend, you must download and install the stuff from > > http://some.domain/and/path";. A user who knows where to find and edit > > dll.conf is probably able to read and understand such a note ;) > > It's ok for me to add commented out external backends to dll.conf > (with appropriate comments in this file and man sane-dll). What I > don't want is changing configure.in.
I see your point in not changing configure.in. But yes it sounds like a really good choice to maybe have a larger commented section with external backend description details, an entry for hpoj could look like # # HP OfficeJet backend # Homepage: http://hpoj.sf.net/ # Uncomment the following line if hpoj is installed: #hpoj # # Another external backend # Homepage: http://some.domain/and/path # ... Or something like that, All these comments on external backends could be at the end of the dll.conf. This should make it little easier for package builders and sys-administrators. Jarl
