[Nix-dev] xsane backend snapshots

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Thu Dec 6 14:44:17 CET 2012


Hi,

On 06/12/12 02:01, Evgeny Egorochkin wrote:

> On Понедельник 26 ноября 2012 16:25:02 Peter Simons wrote:
>>  > I saw you updated the saneBackendsSnapshot. The problem is that the
>>  > snapshots are only available for the current day. What is the purpose
>>  > of
>>  > saneBackendsSnapshot - could we switch to use git instead?
> 
>> By the way, does anyone know the purpose of the SANE module in NixOS? I
>> guess it's supposed to make some udev rules available to the system, but
>> that does that actually work? I noticed, for example, that the udev
>> rules refer to a group name which won't even exist on NixOS.
> 
> Now it exists :) Users should be in scanner group to access scanners.

Why?  Wouldn't it be better if logged-in users have access to scanners, just
like sound devices etc.?

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