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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: Excessive dependancies for OpenOffice 2.0 port
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On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:18:09PM -0500, Mikhail T. wrote:
> I'm surprised, you are not objecting to the port's building of its OWN
> C and C++ compiler, as well as a bunch of "small" things like STLport,
> db4, expat (yes, it depends on it, but builds its own too!), sablotron,
> xmlsec, etc. etc.
>=20
> The vendor, with its requirement to run on the odd OS-es like Solaris
> -- with no good standard way of adding 3rd party packages -- has some
> excuse for providing all these.
>=20
> The FreeBSD port-maintainers have none...

I don't think you realise how much work it is to keep OO building even
with stock vendor sources, let alone with third party versions of
those packages.

Kris
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