[Printing-architecture] [lsb-discuss] LSB 4.0 and printing

[Klaus Singvogel]

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> What can be added without problems is SANE, as this is in every common 
> distro and with the strong trend on multi-function devices it is very 
> important for hardware vendors to make driver packages. It also allows 
> to expand the initiative on distribution-independent driver packages to 
> scanners (including stand-alone devices).

The question is for me, if SANE will become a mandatory package
or will it be an optional package only (btw. is there any such
concept in the LSB?).

The background I'm asking is not hard to understand. Running a few
servers, where no users are sitting in front of, I've no need to do
things like scanning or similiar. But the SANE package is a pretty
large one, and therefore it's bloating the disk usage only without
any further advantage.

Kindly regards,
	Klaus.
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