Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:16:42 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anybody know about a 3.01 package *With* browser? Message-ID: <18906.3786.490993.59702@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <200904061322.n36DMN8L044421@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <18905.35071.181871.437245@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200904061322.n36DMN8L044421@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme writes: > > > I'm not sure why there's so much depenencies, but if anyone wants > > > me to post it, I want to know. > > > > Because OOo declines to re-invent the wheel? Some of these are > > easy to understand if you know almost nothing about programming - > > the fonts for example. Others, like cairo, pango, expat, and CUPS, > > are established libraries for dealing with things like text > > input/rendering, graphics, and printing. "gtk" is the GUI tookkit. > > What I don't understand is things like pciids-20090224. > > It's required by hal. About half of the dependencies seem > to be Xorg-related things (fonts, libraries, protocols). > There are also dependencies for supporting various graphics > formats (png, jpeg, tiff) and scripting languages (python, > perl). Well, it all adds up. So it's not just things that OO depends on directly, but things those programs depend on, /ad incipio/. That's ... confusing. Robert Huff
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