On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:26:30 +0100, Hal V. Engel <hvengel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 03:32, Robert L Krawitz wrote: >> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:35:59 +0100 >> From: gg@xxxxxxxxxxx >> > snip > >> Well, the actual story is that Gutenprint 5.0 includes its own Print >> plugin for the GIMP that replaces the one in GIMP 2.2. The best thing >> to do is to configure the GIMP with >> >> configure --disable-print (or --without-print, I don't remember which) >> >> and then to install Gutenprint on top of it. > > On gentoo this mean that you need set use="-print" for when you emerge > gimp > (IE. set this in /etc/portage/package.use) and then emerge gimp-print > with > the correct keywords set to get gutenprint 5.0 which is currently marked > ~ > for all architectures. I have been doing this for sometime now without > any > problems and if I remember correctly this is what the Gentoo devs > recommended > in a bug report about this. Setting use="-print" is no longer needed for > versions of gimp >=2.3.x but you do have to emerge gimp and gimp-print > in the > correct order to end up with the gutenprint 5 plugin in gimp. > > Hal > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > Many thanks, just for the record, the Gentoo build option is USE=-gimpprint and is now the default. I was stuck because of a work around I had to set up while gentoo refused to resolve the matter and marked the bug resolved INVALID, so no-one was notified when it got resolved really. I was able to sort this out earlier thanks to help from Robert. But I considered it was getting a bit OT for gimp-devel. so I did not post back to list, so let's drop this side issue here. thanks for your help all the same. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
