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Date:      Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:26:47 -0800
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
Cc:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, Aldis Berjoza <killasmurf86@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Subject:   Re: OpenOffice.org packages
Message-ID:  <20091126092647.GA71842@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091126095750.32dadf9f@ernst.jennejohn.org>
References:  <20091123190546.GA1210@killasmurf86.pc> <20091125110119.GB1387@lonesome.com> <20091125134327.3d9fb1a5@ernst.jennejohn.org> <4B0D3067.6080100@bsdforen.de> <20091125170400.GB55794@thought.org> <20091126095750.32dadf9f@ernst.jennejohn.org>

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On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:57:50AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:04:01 -0800
> Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:25:59PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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


	Okay, so what does this mean I'm going to have to find and
	build from java-land from Sun?  Anything??

	-gary


> 
> It's been a long time since I installed OpenOffice from scratch.
> 
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn

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