Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bbgallery and template files

[Roy Wright]

Harry Putnam wrote:

>Well according to the installed docu.. there is supposed to be:
>
>>From the `Usage' html page: (Note the last item)
>
> Now run bbgallery to create the galleries. Without any parameters it
> will use the following default values:
>
>    * Look for images in the default directory
>    * Create index pages with up to 25 thumbnails
>    * Have up to five thumbnails in one row
>    * Use Gallery as title for the index pages
>    * Be quiet. Don't produce any output on SDTOUT
>    * Delay pages in the slide show for 15 seconds
>    * Create links to the meta index
>    * Thumbnails are scalled to 100 pixels
>    * Images are scaled to 800 pixels
>    * Short descriptions in the index page
>    * The default template will be used
>
>I believe my troubles are arising from the fact that a required
>package (Gimp::Module) is not present on my system.  It appears to be
>the tool that creates the templates.
>
>So far I've been unsuccessfull installing it via cpan as reported in
>previous post.
>
>
>
emerge gimp-perl

On the templates, I think the missing "default" template is an 
installation error. 
I looked thru the perl script and did not see any special handling for 
"default". 
The $P{template} is just initialized to 'default'.  On
http://bbgallery.sourceforge.net/templates.html, only two templates are
mentioned, monochrome and oldstyle.  Then some instruction on how to modify
the templates.  My guess is the author intends for you to link
/usr/lib/bbgallery/template/default to your preferred template.  Example:

  ln -s /usr/lib/bbgallery/template/default 
/usr/lib/bbgallery/template/monochrome

In summary the ebuild is probably missing the gimp-perl dependency
and performing the default template link.

HTH,
Roy
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