https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244156
Bug ID: 244156
Summary: Handbook: Stale 7.7 Image Scanners chapter
Product: Documentation
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Only Me
Priority: ---
Component: Documentation
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
On the off chance that somebody has time and a USB scanner that is
supported by SANE, please update the Scanner chapter [1] in the
handbook. It has gotten a little stale. sane-frontends is
deprecated, recommending the unmaintained xsane might not be
the best idea. graphics/kooka might be an alternative to xsane.
Advice in "7.7.3 Scanner Permissions" is bad too, because it uses
devfs.rules and assumes that USB device nodes never change.
Permissions change should happen via devd instead based on scanner
vendor/product id. Somebody has already written a rough outline
about this 10 years ago in sane-backends's pkg-message [2] but it
could use some polishing and IMHO it would be much better to have
it in the Handbook.
Ideally I'd like to completely remove or trim the pkg-message from
sane-backends a lot because I do not think a page long tutorial
belongs there.
[1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/scanners.html
[2]
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/master/graphics/sane-backends/files/pkg-message.in
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