From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 27 14:15: 5 2002 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 7F7D037B404 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 14:15:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313F443E4A for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 14:15:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id C7E504FCA0; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:09:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C298D4A0F; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:09:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:09:45 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: pippo@bellnet.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: openoffice install In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021027153108.00aa1350@pop51.bellnet.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 pippo@bellnet.ca wrote: > Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 15:34:07 -0500 > From: pippo@bellnet.ca > To: Daniel Harris > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: openoffice install > > At 01:45 PM 10/27/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > >Note that http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ has binary packages > >which won't require those 4GB :-) > Thanks for the tip, Daniel. > I kind-of liked using portupgrade. It seems silly to need that much space > for and installation. And I thought that MicroSlop was overbloated... :(( > If you need 4gb for a proggie (alright, it does do a lot - I'll have to > find outg just how lot) it would appear that we must now have 80gb disks or > greater to function without hassles...:)) > PJ > I think the space requirements for the 'port' are for all the temporary compile-time files. The pre-built package itself is fairly small. 4 GB is a *lot* of space though ... X( JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message