2013/9/19 gevisz <gev...@gmail.com>: > I would like to build sane-backend only for one specific scanner. > > However, there are a huge lot of different USE flags for other scanners > that are already switched on by default. > > Is there any easy way to switch them off? > > Something like: > > media-gfx/sane-backends -sane_backends* sane_backends_hp > > Exactly that way does not work, but may be something like that... > > ...instead of directly switching off every one of them.
According to the Package Manager Specification, the variable should not be incremental, i.e. any value set would override *any* defaults or previously set values. So just do SANE_BACKENDS="xxx" in your make.conf, same as what you'd do for VIDEO_CARDS and the like. Hope it helps :)
