From the referenced URL: (GIF support is back, thanks to the expiration of the patent, but gd can draw much more than GIFs.) Does gd support GIF images? Yes. Support for GIF was restored in gd 2.0.28 on July 21st, 2004. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 3 line change to ebuild: IUSE: add gif DEPEND: gif? ( media-libs/giflib media-libs/libungif ) econf `use_with gif` \
Created attachment 42631 [details] Updated ebuild
gif is always enabled ... it doesnt require external libs previous ebuilds had the USE=gif because it required downloading an external patch