Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:50 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, Aldis Berjoza <killasmurf86@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org packages Message-ID: <20091126095750.32dadf9f@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20091125170400.GB55794@thought.org> References: <20091123190546.GA1210@killasmurf86.pc> <20091125110119.GB1387@lonesome.com> <20091125134327.3d9fb1a5@ernst.jennejohn.org> <4B0D3067.6080100@bsdforen.de> <20091125170400.GB55794@thought.org>
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On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:04:01 -0800 Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:25:59PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:19 -0600 > > > Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:05:46PM +0200, Aldis Berjoza wrote: > > >>> I and some other FreeBSD users are wondering why there are no > > >>> OpenOffice.org package available on FreeBSD Mirrors? > > >> OpenOffice is one of our most complex packages, and, depending on which > > >> package node it builds on, can take nearly a day to run. That plus the > > >> large number of dependencies it has makes it hard to build. > > >> > > >> I know that this is not a very satisfactory answer. I promise to once > > >> again look into the problem. > > >> > > > > > > Does the fact that it uses java cause a problem? Used to be that the > > > user had to manually download files from Sun, which would be impractical > > > for an automated run. > > > > > > > If it depended on OpenJDK by default it wouldn't be a problem. I do not > > know whether it does. > > > > > > This has been bugging me for years. If there are *open* > version of things-Java, why-oh-why don't we use them by > default? > > Sun promised to make automatic download of its stuff available > years ago -- Or am I hallucinating? > Looks like all the OpenOffice ports have a line like this: JAVA_VENDOR= freebsd bsdjava openjdk It's been a long time since I installed OpenOffice from scratch. --- Gary Jennejohn
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