Dear list:

Here's my problem and a couple of questions:

I would very much like to update gimp from the latest
available from your repo (gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5.x86_64) to at
least version 2.4.   (The current newest version is 2.6.6.).

However even version 2.4 requires newer versions of gtk+ and
glib than are available for SL 5.0, and each of those has
long coattails of dependencies, so I am loathe to remove my
current gtk+ and glib (using, say, yum) because that would
break all kinds of useful stuff.

So my first question is: what is my best strategy to proceed?

My second question is: do later versions of SL (5.1, 5.2, 5.3)
come with a later version of gimp?  (If so, my best strategy
might be to upgrade SL.  I like SL---so reliable.)

I have no trouble building packages from the source.

Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions.

    -- Peter