Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:51:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <45FB9DF9.9000306@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <45FA154E.1020508@u.washington.edu> References: <20070315153120.GDJ2045.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> <17913.28165.431770.541129@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <45FA154E.1020508@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote: > Robert Huff wrote: >> Vizion writes: >> >>> I do not know about that.. If there is a refusal to keep the port >>> in the tree then the folks at OpenOffice will HAVE to do >>> something about it. >> >> They will? Why? >> While there's no reason to think they want to gratuitously >> create bad feelings, FreeBSD machines are a small fraction of the >> current (and potential) user base. They could blow off FreeBSD - >> heck, *BSD - first thing tomorrow and not notice. >> OpenOffice.Org is under no obligation to FreeBSD, or its users, >> whatsoever. Of course ... if you want to step up and contribute >> patches (or pay someone to do so) then this will get corrected. >> Welcome to the underside of open source software. >> >> >> Robert Huff > > What about the Seamonkey headers break OpenOffice though? Sheesh, the > OpenOffice people should know that it's an unsupported browser and bad > to have sitting around on a machine for security reasons (riddled with > security bugs). > > Provide me with the perfunctory necessary patches and stuff, and I'll > give compiling it a go with Seamonkey's headers. > > -Garrett Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't appear that mozilla actually needs to be installed for OOo-2.x-devel and it appears that instead it just automatically drags in mozilla off the web and compiles portions of OOo specifically using mozilla's headers. Either way I'm trying a compile right now and will hopefully get through without a hitch (even though I'm getting a bit sort on disk space =\..). -Garrett
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