On Ubuntu 14.04:
$ sudo apt-get install xsane
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gimp gimp-data libamd2.3.1 libbabl-0.1-0 libcamd2.3.1 libccolamd2.8.0
libcholmod2.1.2 libgegl-0.2-0 libgimp2.0 liblcms1 libmng2 libumfpack5.6.2
xsane-common
Suggested packages:
gimp-help-en gimp-help gimp-data-extras liblcms-utils hylafax-client
mgetty-fax gv gocr
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gimp gimp-data libamd2.3.1 libbabl-0.1-0 libcamd2.3.1 libccolamd2.8.0
libcholmod2.1.2 libgegl-0.2-0 libgimp2.0 liblcms1 libmng2 libumfpack5.6.2
xsane xsane-common
0 upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 44.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Why does it want to install gimp as a dependency? So far, I've always been able to use xsane standalone? I certainly doubt gimp is required for xsane to run - so how can I install xsane alone without gimp?
EDIT: The weird thing is that here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/xsane , gimp is listed with blue as "suggests", and shouldn't "suggestions" be ignored by default?
