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[Arjan Bouter <abouter AT sourcemage.org>]

> > > On Saturday 01 of March 2008 01:23:14 Arjan Bouter kinda wrote:
> > > > -#
> > > > -# Needs sane-config (from sane-backends), gphoto2-config, and
> > > > -# gphoto2-port-config
> > > > -#
> > > > -#optional_depends  libgphoto2           \
> > > > -#                  ''                   \
> > > > -#                  ''                   \
> > > > -#                  'for TWAIN support'  &&
> > > > +optional_depends  libgphoto2                             \
> > > > +                  '--with-gphoto'                        \
> > > > +                  '--without-gphoto'                     \
> > > > +                  'for digital camera support'           &&
> > > > +
> > > > +optional_depends  sane-backends             \
> > > > +                  '--without-sane'          \
> > > > +                  '--without-sane'          \
> > > > +                  'for scanner support'     &&
> > > Is the note in the old comment not true?

As far as I can tell, no. 

> > Not my commit, but I personally hate it when confronted by queries like
> > "do you want TWAIN support" with no clue on what TWAIN is.

that's why it now reads 'scanner' instead of twain :)
I figured there aren't that many people who know.

> Yes, I think this is definately something we could improve upon, I'm
> often struck with questions like 'WTF is this supposed to do?' for
> configure options and dependencies for spells.
> 
> I've been thinking that it might be worth adding an optional argument to
> the *depends and configure* functions that provides a lengthier
> description of what a configure option does or what a dependency
> entails, this description could be echoed when the user presses ?
> instead of y/n upon which the question will be asked again.

Good idea! When can we expect the patch? ;)



Arjan Bouter

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