Dan Nicholson wrote: > I'm about to update gimp, but there are a couple minor editing issues > I'd like opinions on. > > The only real changes in the package that manifest on the book are: > > * GIMP now uses the external web browser by default for help, and > mozilla is the default. I've added a command to set a <replaceable> > browser in the system gimprc. > > * gimp-help no longer provides pre-built HTML. It uses xsltproc to > generate the the pages. It takes a long time. 9 SBU by my > calculation if you build all the languages. > > My question relates to generating the gimp-help pages. Now, libxslt > is required to get the help pages. Should this be noted in the > dependencies? Right now I just have it in the area near the gimp-help > instructions.
Yes, please put it in the dependencies. We have several places where a package is in the dependencies just to regenerate docs. In this case, the help need to be generated and should be mainlined. > Also, it looks like you can build a smaller subset of languages by > passing ALL_LINGUAS="..." to configure. The list of available > languages is "cs de en fr hr it nl sv zh_CN". I didn't test this. > Should it be mentioned? You bet. Many people will only want one language. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
