Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 13:05:33 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Mikhail T." <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, openoffice@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Excessive dependancies for OpenOffice 2.0 port Message-ID: <20051106180533.GA4574@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200511051218.09945@Misha> References: <200511051218.09945@Misha>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:18:09PM -0500, Mikhail T. wrote: > 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... 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. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDbkXsWry0BWjoQKURAsgYAJ90F7SynN9zHYkB29aMQyVO0JWLBwCdG+NQ NgmCwUBDCubmJydYfTYV99k= =bfBp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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