media-gfx/inkscape-0.47 has the RDEPEND postscript? ( >=media-gfx/pstoedit-3.44[plotutils] media-gfx/skencil ) But according to the Release Notes ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes047 ), Inkscape has migrated to using Ghostscript for handling of postscript, instead of pstoedit or skencil. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 223369 [details, diff] proposed patch Applied this patch to the ebuild and emerged with the postscript flag (and neither of the previous packages installed) and it works fine...but I'm not an inkscape expert.
(In reply to comment #1) > Created an attachment (id=223369) [details] > proposed patch > > Applied this patch to the ebuild and emerged with the postscript flag (and > neither of the previous packages installed) and it works fine...but I'm not an > inkscape expert. > Well, I switched the deps as in this patch and imported postscript to edit in Inkscape with no problem. IMO, this should be fixed ASAP, since it's so totally wrong to dep on skencil, (with tk and tcl libs!)... no wonder they fixed it upstream.
+ 16 Apr 2010; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> inkscape-0.47.ebuild, + +files/inkscape-0.47-gcc45.patch, metadata.xml: + Fix building with GCC 4.5 wrt #305749 by Daniel J.. Fix PostScript + dependencies wrt #309213 by Willie Wong and Christopher Harvey. Disable + strict aliasing wrt #310393 by Doktor Notor.
The dependency on pstoedit should be kept because it is required for rendering latex formulae (Extensions > Render > LaTeX formula). If not, a post-emerge message or a USE flag may be useful. (Fortunately, it is only a run time dependency.) On that note, hopefully skencil doesn't provide any feature.
