Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:39:25 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: office apps Message-ID: <4C0E642D.5040907@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100608144342.GA1851@holstein.holy.cow> References: <20100606203416.GF46089@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100607112150.6824a94f@icy.localdomain> <20100607164035.GC2102@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <AANLkTil2gpibF2N2Bir_eewMBQXru5L8Wln0EbqrUszw@mail.gmail.com> <20100608144342.GA1851@holstein.holy.cow>
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On 08/06/2010 15:43:42, parv@pair.com wrote:
> Am I the only one who has (force) installed open office from package
> without java dependency and has yet to see a problem with MS Word &
> simple Excel files?
>
> It took about 15 "seconds" of manual count to see an empty window
> after typing "openoffice.org-3.0.0 -nologo". Hardware is ...
>
> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7100 @ 1.80GHz (1795.52-MHz 686-class CPU)
> ...
> avail memory = 3119153152 (2974 MB)
> ...
> ad4: 305245MB <Hitachi HTS545032B9A300 PB3OC60G> at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s
> (5400 rpm)
I wonder about that. I'm sure there are quite a few pkgs where some of
the registered dependencies are really optional, and the same pkg would
work either with or without them. I know that databases/phpMyAdmin,
which I maintain is like that.
I did spend some time reading up on 'pkg_add -M' and 'pkg_add -S' -- in
theory it should be possible to use pkg_add -M to extract the pkg
contents, feed that into the stdin of a script, which pops up a dialogue
allowing you to make those choices, edits the pkg on the way past and
then feeds it to 'pkg_add -S' for final installation. Can't see how to
force something like that to happen from a normal invocation of
pkg_add(1) though.
Would be a nice addition -- you could also emulate NOPORTDOCS and
NOPORTEXAMPLES, except entirely with pkgs that way.
Cheers,
Matthew
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