From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 1 20:09:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1934216A421 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 20:09:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp-gs.math.arizona.edu (math051.cs.arizona.edu [150.135.82.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE13613C45B for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 20:09:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp-gs.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J9nDW-0001O7-Gp for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:56:03 -0700 Received: from 71-220-128-188.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.128.188] helo=.domain.actdsltmp) by smtp-gs.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J9nDG-0001NO-QM; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:55:46 -0700 Message-ID: <477A9ABE.3090105@math.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:55:42 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Huff References: <477A3CFC.8030204@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <477A50BE.7090202@smo.de> <18298.24389.819729.23182@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <18298.24389.819729.23182@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACL-Warn: The HELO/EHLO greeting .domain.actdsltmp is invalid X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) Cc: Philipp Ost , "O. Hartmann" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:09:23 -0000 Robert Huff wrote: > Philipp Ost writes: > > >> > Any ideas? This is a serious situation to me, due to the need of a >> > properly working OO :-( >> >> No, perhaps using an other word processor (AbiWord, StarOffice). Or >> going back to OOo 2.3.0... >> > > This has been discussed within the last two weeks on the > openoffice@ list. A message from Peter Jeremy on December 14 > contains both information about the cause and a patch. > > > Robert Huff > _______________________________________________ > I am not an OpenOffice user but my 2c about the topic as the problem I think underline more serous issue. The question is why is OpenOffice 2.3.1 included in the ports three so quickly without making sure that things work properly. BSD systems are genuinely known for their stability and code correctness which is why most people decided to use them on the first place. Rushing to include new software in the ports three without proper testing is seriously going to damage usability of the whole OS. In my understanding ports tree is supporting stable and the current brunch. I am of the opinion that the ports three of the stable branch should not include nothing but the rock solid and tested software. The easiest way for me to check if the port is bleeding edge that is to try to install the same software using binaries. (pkg_add -r) If the binaries do not exist or if the version installed from binaries is older that clearly indicates that the port version is too new to be trusted. I personally found out that Xfce4-panel is not compiling properly on stable and also Orage (calendar for Xfce) While problems with Xfce4-panel are not as serious as with Orage (which is not usable in any shape or form on FreeBSD) they are still serious. The same packages work flawlessly on the OpenBSD. Happy New Year to Everybody Predrag > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >