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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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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

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