gnuplot 4.4.0_rc1 is now available in science overlay, give it a good testing. If you add it to the tree at some point, remember to add dev-tex/picins as well.
> If you add it to the tree at some point, remember to add dev-tex/picins as > well. I'm afraid that we cannot. picins was removed during the transition from teTeX to TeXLive and has a non-free license (it's not even clear if we're allowed to distribute it). See discussion here: <http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2005-October/009311.html> I really wonder what upstream was thinking when adding a dependency on a non-standard package like this.
we can just get the manual and the tutorial from here: http://www.gnuplot.info/documentation.html Is picins in sci overlay okay? We just need it for the live ebuilds.
Created attachment 220881 [details, diff] gnuplot-no-picins.patch Looks like picins is not even used: With attached patch it builds just fine, and I don't see any differences in the generated PDF documentation. (In reply to comment #2) > Is picins in sci overlay okay? We just need it for the live ebuilds. I don't mind (but ask the Science Team). Generally, maintainence will be easier if ebuilds in main tree and overlay are kept as similar as possible.
gnuplot-4.4.0_rc2 will come in the next days. picins is needed for build pdf with figures (make -C docs pdffigures) http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2957458&group_id=2055&atid=102055 As we build the pdf without pics we can remove it on the fly by find/sed find -name '*.tex' -exec sed -i '/picins/d' {} \;
Patch from upstream for the picins issue is here: <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=2055&atid=102055&file_id=365763&aid=2957458>
