FreshRPMs and GIMP

[Henry A. Leinhos]

I use GARNOME to build GNOME 2.6 (with GIMP 2), and install it all under 
/usr/local/gnome2.6 so that it doesn't interfere with my base system.  
Adjusting paths for the GNOME 2.6 session allows me to run the old gimp 
along side the new (although I *did* have to upgrade my installed 
fontconfig).  The gimp-print plugin still hasn't been ported to GIMP 2.x, so 
I still print from my gimp 1.2 (but do all my work in gimp 2) . 

bruce woller writes: 

> 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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