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Date:      Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:09:45 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        pippo@bellnet.ca
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: openoffice install
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210271708220.23181-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021027153108.00aa1350@pop51.bellnet.ca>

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On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 pippo@bellnet.ca wrote:

> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 15:34:07 -0500
> From: pippo@bellnet.ca
> To: Daniel Harris <dh@askdh.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: openoffice install
> 
> At 01:45 PM 10/27/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Note that http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ has binary packages
> >which won't require those 4GB :-)
> Thanks for the tip, Daniel.
> I kind-of liked using portupgrade. It seems silly to need that much space 
> for and installation. And I thought that MicroSlop was overbloated... :((
> If you need 4gb for a proggie (alright, it does do a lot - I'll have to 
> find outg just how lot) it would appear that we must now have 80gb disks or 
> greater to function without hassles...:))
> PJ
> 

I think the space requirements for the 'port' are for all the temporary 
compile-time files. The pre-built package itself is fairly small. 4 GB is 
a *lot* of space though ... X(

JB

#  John Bleichert 
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