On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 3:29 PM Roger Koehler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2019, 9:36 PM Ken Moffat via blfs-dev 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 08:15:20PM -0600, Roger Koehler via blfs-dev wrote:
>> > Why is this package included in the book? What uses it? Any chance of
>> > addoing the MyPaint package?
>>
>> ken@milliways ~ $find repos/BLFS-full/trunk/ -name '*.xml' | xargs grep 
>> 'linkend.*libmypaint'
>> repos/BLFS-full/trunk/BOOK/general/graphlib/mypaint-brushes.xml:      <xref 
>> role="runtime" linkend="libmypaint"/>
>> repos/BLFS-full/trunk/BOOK/xsoft/other/gimp.xml:      <xref 
>> linkend="libmypaint"/>,
>> ken@milliways ~ $
>>
>> Note that these versions are required by gimp-2.10, but I believe one
>> or both is/are not the current versions.  The links to both the
>> brushes and the lib are "duplicated" from gimp because for the
>> brushes, the dependency is runtime, whereas for gimp they are both
>> needed at compile time.
>>
>> What needs MyPaint, or what do you use it for, and is it anything
>> more than a straight CMMI or CMake or Meson build (i.e. something
>> that users can build without major problems) ?  In other words -
>> what would be the benefit of adding it to the book (and perhaps
>> duplicating the brushes and the lib) ?
>
>
> I was just looking for a simple app that would allow me to work math problems 
> like on a whiteboard with my Wacom tablet and save my work. I tried building 
> MyPaint but ran into all sorts of issues, so I was hoping someone had already 
> figured it out.

p.s. I ended up just using gimp.
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