Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:05:25 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1 Message-ID: <20100727010525.56d533b5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=fYzBqv4f9QNe3zXaBypN3wpZ7atL_yB1tRsUW@mail.gmail.com> References: <4C4DC4FA.6070400@antonioshome.net> <20100726173318.GC25072@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <AANLkTi=fYzBqv4f9QNe3zXaBypN3wpZ7atL_yB1tRsUW@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:00:46 -0500, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> wrote: > Compiling OpenOffice is not a practical option for many of us due to > hardware restraints. > > I'm glad to see that there's a compiled binary somewhere! Additionally, there's also the problem of the various configurational items for the OpenOffice building process: if to use CUPS or not, if to include Gnome-VFS support, KDE support, Mozilla support, and the localized language (which does not even include dictionaries for that language)... The times where "pkg_add -r de-openoffice.org" would give you, for example, an OpenOffice in german language (WITH dictionaries!) within a few minutes are over. :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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