Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:58:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" <cdf.lists@fxp.org> To: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: staroffice-3.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910051855140.32998-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991005180253.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
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On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Will Andrews wrote: > On 05-Oct-99 Josef Karthauser wrote: > > We could have a binary port - netscape is :) Seriously the main problem with > > Where are we going to get the file? I'm not aware that Sun's made it available > without having to go through a CGI. > And how does this differ from ports such as Wordperfect and US versions of Netscape where you are required to download the distfile manually. Also, ports such as ntop require bpf[ilter] in the kernel, which, until 3.3, did not come standard. Why not just give the user an informational message (at the beginning/end of the build/install) of the required kernel options? ----- Chris D. Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> | All the true gurus I've met never System/Network Administrator, | claimed they were one, and always Reality Check Information, Inc. | pointed to someone better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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