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Date:      Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:24:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      patl@phoenix.volant.org
To:        Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: staroffice-3.1
Message-ID:  <ML-3.4.939162268.5566.patl@asimov>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991005180253.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>

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On  5-Oct-99 at 15:05, Will Andrews (andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM) wrote:
> On 05-Oct-99 Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > We could have a binary port - netscape is :)  Seriously the main problem
> > with 
> 
> Where are we going to get the file? I'm not aware that Sun's made it
> available without having to go through a CGI.

Handle it the same way we do the Netscape 128-bit US version.
Make the user do the download manually; but have the port handle
dependancies and the actual installation.  For the kernel dependancies
that can't be automated in the port, the port can issue a message
telling the user what they need to do.  (Ideally, it would first
perform some sort of test to see if the running kernel was actually
missing the necessary features.)



-Pat


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