David Paschal <pasc...@rcsis.com> writes: > Jarl Friis wrote: > > I suggest the following patch to help sys-admins and package > > maintainers to use sane with the hpoj backend. > > > > I just read that code-freeze for 1.0.9 is today, so in lack of time > > before code-freeze I have not been able to test the patch, but as the > > change is only comments, it shouldn't be able to destroy anything. > ... > > +#To use hpoj backend you must install hpoj (from hpoj.sf.net) > > +#hpoj > One problem with adding this is that the hpoj installation process > automatically adds an "hpoj" line, so you would end up with a possibly > confusing situation of two such lines, one commented out somewhere in the > middle and another not commented out at or near the end. If it's done > right, a binary package (such as the hpoj packages in Mandrake 9.0) should > be able to do a similar thing, so this doesn't help all that much and > will cause a similar problem of confusion.
If it's done really right ;-), a commented line like '#hpoj' is substituted with an uncommented line like 'hpoj'. Further it doesn't do anything if hpoj is allready listed in dll.conf That is what the patch to SuSE RPM sent to hpoj-de...@lists.sourceforge.net does. Jarl
