Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 13:44:26 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, openoffice@FreeBSD.org, "Mikhail T." <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Excessive dependancies for OpenOffice 2.0 port Message-ID: <20051106184426.GA21318@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <436E4A33.7040801@makeworld.com> References: <200511051218.09945@Misha> <20051106180533.GA4574@xor.obsecurity.org> <436E4A33.7040801@makeworld.com>
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--UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:23:47PM -0600, Chris wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:18:09PM -0500, Mikhail T. wrote: > >=20 > >>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. > >> > >>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. > >> > >>The FreeBSD port-maintainers have none... > >=20 > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > Kris >=20 > Curious - is there a pkg_add version of OOo? Yes, whenever it's buildable. Kris --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDbk8KWry0BWjoQKURAhzUAJsG8uueWickJ5WwRjdmLqvCGYgocQCg2pjW WRRoXvnGkOzEDeX/bTw6xWg= =g8yf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--
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