From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 25 11:01:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A92106566B for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:01:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (lefty.soaustin.net [66.135.55.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058318FC15 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 75BC28C06D; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:19 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:19 -0600 From: Mark Linimon To: Aldis Berjoza Message-ID: <20091125110119.GB1387@lonesome.com> References: <20091123190546.GA1210@killasmurf86.pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091123190546.GA1210@killasmurf86.pc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:01:20 -0000 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. mcl