--- In [email protected], "insane_rosenberg"
> I did post to the Gentoo forums but had no reply - should
> have thought to check the bugzilla. I probably wouldn't have
> gone as far as posting my own bug if it did not already exist
> as I am not an experienced kicad user and thought perhaps
> there was some setting I wasn't able to find.
There is no way we can be aware of a random post in a random place of the
forums. Reporting bugs is what bugzilla is for. Plus, bugzilla helps us track
and coordinate the bug fixing process. You were lucky I happened to read the
kicad-users mailing list that day, because I read it even less often than the
kicad-devel list. I maintain dozens of packages and have other administrative
duties for Gentoo, so I can't afford spending that much time on one single
package.
So, please, next time do file a bug if there's not one yet. It's really not
that complicated and it helps us a lot. And nobody is going to be mad at you in
case you do it wrong. Our bug wranglers are pretty tame these days.
> I am happy to wait for the updated version. At the moment I'm
> the only person who has to view my schematics but I am
> considering going commercial with my work and wanted to be sure
> I could produce schematics in English.
I removed GOST support from the ebuild. It is a bit too hardwired to my taste.
If I have a better fix in the future I'll put it back. But most probably I'll
wait for the kicad developers to fix or overhaul it.
> There is one other thing you could help with, the help menu
> item in my Gentoo kicad replies that it can't find the .pdf
> files. I emerged with the doc USE flag. Where should the PDF's
> be located? No existing bug for this one :-)
We store documentation and help files in /usr/share/doc/${PF} and not
/usr/share/doc/${PN} (in Gentoo jargon), so the code needed to be patched a bit.
I'll commit both fixes tomorrow probably.
Denis.
