Julien BLACHE wrote: > Alesh Slovak <alesh.slovak at avasys.jp> wrote: >> We can't use a static rules file because each distro uses slightly >> different syntax. And even then, we can't keep up with all the changes >> distros themselves keep making to their udev rules files resulting in >> breakage nearly every time a new version of a distro is released. This >> happened again with this months round of distro updates. > > Argh distro bashing. s/distro/udev's upstream/ in all of the above is > way more correct.
I wasn't bashing, but point taken. I was just trying to make the case that there is a reason many third party SANE backend providers screw up when it comes to scanner permissions. I am not trying to blame anyone here, just trying to find a solution we can all live with. > udev's upstream keeps breaking everything with each new udev > release. It's a major pain for distributions. I see we are in the same boat on this one then. Happy scanning, -- Alesh Slovak Linux Team -- AVASYS Corporation alesh.slovak at avasys.jp http://avasys.jp
