From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 18:06:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FAF316A4E0 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:06:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A3B43D72 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:06:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id k85I5vhE081654 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:06:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id k85I5vJN081653; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:05:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA23129; Tue, 5 Sep 06 11:00:17 PDT Date: Tue, 5 Sep 06 11:00:17 PDT From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Message-Id: <10609051800.AA23129@pluto.rain.com> To: jerrymc@msu.edu References: <10609040708.AA17675@pluto.rain.com> <10609042341.AA20281@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Word processor for 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:06:17 -0000 > By the way, Openoffice does work nicely on FreeBSD 6.1 and Gnome > is not needed for it at all. Gnome is irrelevant to Openoccife. The Ports build of OpenOffice seems to require glib, which seems to be maintained by the gnome folks even if it is not, strictly speaking, part of gnome. If there is a build-time option to use something else instead, it would be nice for the choice to come up on one of those blue option screens when building the port.