Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:49:05 +0100 From: Jon Mercer <jon.mercer@achean.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building OO from ports. Message-ID: <3F87EE31.7050105@achean.com> In-Reply-To: <3F87E487.2050003@sitetronics.com> References: <20031010200342.87516.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com> <200310110032.58527.dgw@liwest.at> <20031010163900.H53164@fubar.adept.org> <3F87E487.2050003@sitetronics.com>
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Both KDE and OO take a phenomenal time to build from ports, especially on my laptop, but I've never encountered a problem with either. Installing gnome2 for the first time was more of an issue because of resident gnome1 software and libraries, but not a major issue to someone with moderate abilities. Whoever told you that may have had a bad experience in the past. Ports is the great benefit of FreeBSD, and one of the reasons I recommend it to clients over Linux. Jon Mercer Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > I've never had problems building OOo from ports. Takes a damn long time, > but still. > > Never wanted to build KDE and never have :) > > --Devon > > Mike Hoskins wrote: > >> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Daniela wrote: >> >> >>> On Friday 10 October 2003 20:03, RexFelis wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Someone once told me that 'mere mortals' should >>>> never attempt to build KDE or OO from ports. >>>> >>> >>> Why not? I build everything from source (with added debug symbols), >>> and I'm >>> still pretty new to both FreeBSD and UNIX (had about one month >>> experience >>> when I started compiling). >>> >> >> >> because they've both broken horribly in the past? ;) seriously though, >> the >> time i had an issue with OO, the maintainer was super responsive... so >> unless you're afraid of email, there's not much to fear... beside the >> disk space requirements, of course. >> >> -mrh >> >> -- >> From: "Spam Catcher" <spam-catcher@adept.org> >> To: spam-catcher@adept.org >> Do NOT send email to the address listed above or >> you will be added to a blacklist! >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ___ ___ | | / | | / | | / /| | / / | | / / | | _____ / / ____ ____ ___ | | / /__| | / ___ \ / /__ / __ \ / _ | | /__ | | / ____ | / / /_/ / ___ \ / /_/ / / / | | / ___ \ | | / / | | / / __ / / \ \ | ___/__ / / / / / / \ \ | | / / | | | |__/ / / / / / | \__/ / | |_| | / / / / | | /__\ /___\ \_____/ /__| /__| \_____/ \__/|_| /__| /__| | | | | www.achean.com | | ============== | | Jon Mercer jon.mercer@achean.com | | | | Mobile 07973 256496 | | | | Tel. 0117 9561211 | | | | Fax 0117 9565637 | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
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