Gimp is installed with a version number in the executable and in the man page. This means that I have to type the version number to start the executable, and that I cannot get the manual page. I can of course install a softlink in /usr/local/bin, but that does not solve the manpage problem. I guess this is done because gimp is slotted, but is there not a way of avoiding it? For example by installing a softlink named "gimp" and a similar softlink for the man page. The vast majority of users, who only use one version of gimp, should then have no problems, and the few who need two versions installed can still start them with gimp-2.2 or gimp-1.2. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. # etcat -v gimp [ Results for search key : gimp ] [ Candidate applications found : 10 ] Only printing found installed programs. * media-gfx/gimp : [ ] 1.2.5 (1.2) [ ] 2.0.0 (2) [M~ ] 2.0.2 (2) [ ] 2.0.4 (2) [M~ ] 2.0.5 (2) [M~ ] 2.0.6 (2) [M~ ] 2.2.0 (2) [M~ ] 2.2.3 (2) [M~ ] 2.2.6 (2) [ I] 2.2.6-r1 (2)
from the INSTALL doc in the source: --disable-default-binary. Use this option if you don't want to make gimp-2.2 the default gimp installation. Otherwise a link called gimp pointing to the gimp-2.2 executable will be installed. As you can see in our ebuild on line 104: "--disable-default-binary \" is enabled. I will talk to some other devs about this and see what they think about this. For now, if you want, you can take that line out of the ebuild. Also, can't you just do "man gimp-2.2" to get the manpage ( this works for me)?
I'm closing 9 bugs at once, since these bugs should be fixed in my 2.2.7 ebuild of the gimp. ( just committed to the unstable tree ) If you find that your bug was not fixed in the 2.2.7 ebuild, please open a new bug with what it is or is not still doing. Thanks for the attachments and comment, they helped!
