GIMP 2.7.3 in Gentoo? 2011-08-31
I heard about GIMP 2.7.3 (released 2011-08-22) and its long-awaited single window mode from LWN recently. It read “[v]ersion 2.7 [..] wont hit most distro repositories for a while” quoting Linux Journal. That got me interested. Most distros? Not Gentoo: I updated the ebuild to 2.7.3 today. Once you unmask it, you can emerge it. Please report problems with it on bugs.gentoo.org as usual. Thanks! If the next weeks go well, it could get unmasked soon.
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It think quoting the article as
“[v]ersion 2.7 [..] wont hit most distro repositories for a while”
is a bit misleading. The full quote reads
“Version 2.7 is part of the development branch, so unfortunately, the feature wont(sic) hit most distro repositories for a while.”
Version 2.7 will probably never hit most distros because it’s a development version. The feature will, though. With 2.8.
I installed from a local ebuild picked somewhere and it has been installed from one or two weeks now. But I just tried the single-window mode and didn’t really use it yet
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i such moment I’m proud to be gentoo user
Thanks, Sebastian
While at it you could also fix that stupid underlinking bug so i can install it with gold