Hi, One of the changes introduced in 2.8.8 was: "Backport lcms2 support from master, because lcms1 is not getting bug fixes any longer" Thus it seems sane to include this ability in portage as well. Now gimp ebuild uses only lcms1 (both through dependences and explicit configure options): lcms? ( >=media-libs/lcms-1.16:0 ) $(use_with lcms lcms lcms1) \ I just checked and it builds fine with --with-lcms=lcms2 and media-libs/lcms-2.5-r1:2. Resulting lcms plugin links correctly to lcms2. Reproducible: Always
There's a little catch about it - hinted at in bug 487724.
*gimp-2.8.8-r1 (07 Nov 2013) 07 Nov 2013; Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org> +gimp-2.8.8-r1.ebuild: Move to lcms 2.x