From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 00:27:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E5A106566B for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2011 00:27:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28E638FC0A for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2011 00:27:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.59]) by qmta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id EQPE1g0011GXsucA8QT4uP; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:27:04 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id EQT11g01G1f6R9u8UQT20v; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:27:04 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:27:01 -0800 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:27:01 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110303002701.GB11530@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20110302230652.GA11530@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110302230652.GA11530@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.4.2.3i X-Composer: Vim 7.3 Subject: Re: Is it possible to install only some parts of libreoffice? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:27:05 -0000 On Wed 02 Mar 2011 at 15:06:52 PST Charlie Kester wrote: >I don't want or need all of the programs in the libreoffice suite. > >In fact, the only reason I might install it is to get the presentation >program so I can work with PowerPoint files I occasionally download from >the web. (There don't seem to be any workable, lighterweight >alternatives, as there are for .doc and .xls files.) > >Would it be possible to provide some options to select which components >to install? Or is the suite written in such a way that I have to >install the whole thing in order to get one piece? As often happens, asking the question got me thinking and I went to FreshPorts to see if I could find some alternatives to Impress that I didn't know about. Found devel/present, which looks promising. Poking around in the workdir, I see there's a gtk-based ppt viewer included. But I'd still like to know if it's possible to install only a few selected components from libreoffice, for the cases where I might need to do more than view an MSOffice file.