From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 26 08:57:58 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 86767106566B for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:57:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout6.freenet.de (mout6.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0748FC1A for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:57:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [195.4.92.26] (helo=16.mx.freenet.de) by mout6.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.70 #1) id 1NDaAj-0001YC-Ha; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:53 +0100 Received: from ta30e.t.pppool.de ([89.55.163.14]:38600 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 16.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.70 #1) id 1NDaAj-0003JH-AQ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:53 +0100 Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:50 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Gary Kline 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.16.2; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dominic Fandrey , Aldis Berjoza , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:57:58 -0000 On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:04:01 -0800 Gary Kline 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 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