https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroot
On 07/28/13 20:35, Kasim Ahmic wrote:
So what exactly does this do? Does it lock GIMP 2.6 onto your machine and not
allow you to upgrade to 2.8, or what?
Sorry, I'm mainly a Windows user :P
Sent from my iPod
On Jul 27, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Dirk <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
it has now been months that Gimp developers seem to have decided that their "product
vision" in Gimp2.8 (debian/unstable) is more relevant than the workflow of their
users.
People who use Gimp *a lot* keep clicking "Save as" instead of "Export" because
that is what they're used to. Because it is natural.
If you think that it is trivial to make that workflow mistake over and over -
then you are a casual Gimp user and can stop reading.
If you use Google and search for "export save gimp" you can witness what
happens when marketing takes over the development.
There seems to be this product-vision-apologetics that they can ignore their
users because they are not getting paid by them anyway. Old user will just be
replaced by new users. Nobody will notice that transition except in the
feedback, which isn't monetary but just a few angry posts in the internet.
Since Debian (like all other distributions) will have to (or has to) update to
Gimp2.8 in the stable branch I dedicated a chroot jail to Gimp2.6 and will
explain here how you can do it yourself.
Creating a chroot jail for a single application is very easy.
# the directory in which the chroot jail will exist
mkdir chroot_gimp2.6
# run debootstrap it will install a minimal debian and gimp2.6
# this will take a while
debootstrap --variant=minbase --include=gimp squeeze chroot_gimp2.6
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian
# run gimp from inside the chroot jail
chroot chroot_gimp2.6 gimp
Enjoy Gimp2.6 and the workflow you are used to.
No further updates/changes of your Distribution will take Gimp2.6 workflow away
from you.
This will be reposted for your convenience when debian/stable switches to
Gimp2.8.
Dirk
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