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Date:      Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:19 -0600
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Aldis Berjoza <killasmurf86@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenOffice.org packages
Message-ID:  <20091125110119.GB1387@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091123190546.GA1210@killasmurf86.pc>
References:  <20091123190546.GA1210@killasmurf86.pc>

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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



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