FreshRPMs and GIMP

[bruce woller]

Just a note on gimp 2. -- I thought I couldn't live without it on linux 
after I tried it on OS X - somewhat of a mistake.  I seem to have 
broken my font server with fontconfig-2.2.96 and messed up my old 
version of gimp 1.3 in the process.  If you try it be warned that there 
are about six new packages to be installed from scratch (i.e. no rpms 
exist) and for a fumble fingers like me it takes about 4 hours to just 
get X11 working again (I'm still not quite there) - The end result:  
still no gimp 2 because configure still can't see fontconfig > 2.2.0 
even when it is installed and X11 that won't start from boot but can be 
jiggled from the CLI if you hold your mouth just right and I seem to 
have lost a bunch of fonts along the way.

let the builder beware!

Bruce
On Jul 20, 2004, at 5:10 AM, Matthias Saou wrote:

> Christopher Brown wrote :
>
>> First thing:
>>
>> Thank you Mathias for your work and efforts on FreshRPMs. Your site 
>> alone
>>
>> is making the transition from Mac OS X to YDL as a primary OS MUCH 
>> easier
>>
>> (Hello YDL!).
>
> You're welcome :-)
>
>> BUT:
>>
>> PLEASE return the GIMP to your RPM repository. Or give me a link to 
>> it. I
>>
>> regret the day I asked a question about it and you removed it. Since
>> re-installing I no longer have it.
>
> That's a bit of a problem... the final 2.0.x gimp packages on YDL 3.0 
> are
> quite tricky, as if you replace the 1.2.x gimp, you get broken 
> gimp-print
> and others. Also, it requires quite a few updates to stuff like 
> fontconfig
> (IIRC) etc. which many people aren't too keen on having changed in 
> their
> system. The older 1.3.x beta versions I was packaging didn't require as
> many libraries to be upgraded, so it was a little easier at the time.
>
> I could check to see if it's still possible to have 2.0.x parallel
> installable with 1.2.x, in which case that could be a solution if the
> package is named "gimp2" for instance. Still, core libraries will need 
> to
> be upgraded, which might be a mess, and later on for systems being 
> upgraded
> to YDL 4 (when it's out), may have problems if the newer gimp doesn't
> obsolete gimp2, or if some of those libraries rebuilt for 3.0 are newer
> than the ones in 4...
>
> So basically, I'd like to avoid that for now. If YDL 4 is around the
> corner, it's not only easier but also safer to just wait for it 
> instead.
>
> BTW, I remember someone asked for a sodipodi package... seems like I 
> erased
> the original thread. The package is now available in freshrpms.net for 
> YDL
> 3.0 ;-)
>
> Matthias
>
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