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Date:      Fri, 03 Apr 1998 21:58:00 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, mike@smith.net.au, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/staroffice Makefile 
Message-ID:  <199804040558.VAA00405@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Apr 1998 18:57:27 PST." <19980401185727.07885@nuxi.com> 

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> >  * 						   4.x can't be 
> >  * redistributed at all, which is why it's not been replaced.  8(
> > 
> > Well, you can always make it a RESTRICTED port in addition to
> > staroffice3.  I can do a repository copy (staroffice -> staroffice4)
> > if you want to do that.
> 
> I've got the dist to start work on upgrading StarOffice to 4.0.
> Has anybody else started working on this?

A port of 4.0 is almost pointless, as you have no way of enforcing the 
installation target.  This means that you can't uninstall it, coerce it 
to obey $PREFIX, etc.

In addition, it wants to be installed on a per-user basis, rather than
per-system basis.
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\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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