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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:07:51 +0200
From:      "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com>
To:        Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>
Cc:        advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Building OO from ports.
Message-ID:  <3F87E487.2050003@sitetronics.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031010163900.H53164@fubar.adept.org>
References:  <20031010200342.87516.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com> <200310110032.58527.dgw@liwest.at> <20031010163900.H53164@fubar.adept.org>

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I've never had problems building OOo from ports. Takes a damn long time, 
but still.

Never wanted to build KDE and never have :)

--Devon

Mike Hoskins wrote:

>On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Daniela wrote:
>  
>
>>On Friday 10 October 2003 20:03, RexFelis wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Someone once told me that 'mere mortals' should
>>>never attempt to build KDE or OO from ports.
>>>      
>>>
>>Why not? I build everything from source (with added debug symbols), and I'm
>>still pretty new to both FreeBSD and UNIX (had about one month experience
>>when I started compiling).
>>    
>>
>
>because they've both broken horribly in the past? ;) seriously though, the
>time i had an issue with OO, the maintainer was super responsive...  so
>unless you're afraid of email, there's not much to fear...  beside the
>disk space requirements, of course.
>
>-mrh
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