[gentoo-user] Re: bbgallery and template files

[Harry Putnam]

Roy Wright <royw@×××××.com> writes:

I had searched portage before posting about gimp-perl.  It's not in
my portage tree which is somewhat out of date.  That led me to think
it was not available via the normal gentoo channel hence my attempts
to use cpan to install it.

> emerge gimp-perl

How can I get that package without a full on update of portage which I
don't want to do right now?

> 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.

No such links appear after `emerge -v bbgallery'  so I guess not.


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