gimp-2.0_pre does not see gimp-print 5. News from the gimp-print site suggests that it could be installed along with gimp-print 4.2... In its current state, it keeps getting installed then rolled back due to the 4.2 depend in the gimp ebuild. New as of January 11, 2004! Gimp-Print 5.0.0-alpha1 is released. This is the initial alpha release on the Gimp-Print 5.0 line. This offers major improvements over 4.2, and may be installed concurrently with Gimp-Print 4.2 when CUPS is used. checking for gimpprint-config... no checking for GIMP-PRINT - version >= 4.2.0... no *** The gimpprint-config script installed by GIMP-PRINT could not be found *** If GIMP-PRINT was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GIMPPRINT_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to gimpprint-config. configure: error: *** Check for libgimpprint failed. You can download it from *** http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ or you can build without it by passing *** --disable-print to configure (but you won't be able to print then). !!! ERROR: media-gfx/gimp-2.0_pre3-r1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed
it may be possible, but very difficult. gimp-print 4.2 and 5 share a lot of files and since it is alpha software please use gimp-print 4.2 to have printing support in gimp
