From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 04:07:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FAE416A4B3 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amsfep14-int.chello.nl (amsfep14-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF1743FBD for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from sitetronics.com ([213.46.142.207]) by amsfep14-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with ESMTP id <20031011110752.LNWO3677.amsfep14-int.chello.nl@sitetronics.com>; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:07:52 +0200 Message-ID: <3F87E487.2050003@sitetronics.com> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:07:51 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Hoskins References: <20031010200342.87516.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com> <200310110032.58527.dgw@liwest.at> <20031010163900.H53164@fubar.adept.org> In-Reply-To: <20031010163900.H53164@fubar.adept.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building OO from ports. X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 11:07:55 -0000 I've never had problems building OOo from ports. Takes a damn long time, but still. Never wanted to build KDE and never have :) --Devon Mike Hoskins wrote: >On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Daniela wrote: > > >>On Friday 10 October 2003 20:03, RexFelis wrote: >> >> >>>Someone once told me that 'mere mortals' should >>>never attempt to build KDE or OO from ports. >>> >>> >>Why not? I build everything from source (with added debug symbols), and I'm >>still pretty new to both FreeBSD and UNIX (had about one month experience >>when I started compiling). >> >> > >because they've both broken horribly in the past? ;) seriously though, the >time i had an issue with OO, the maintainer was super responsive... so >unless you're afraid of email, there's not much to fear... beside the >disk space requirements, of course. > >-mrh > >-- >From: "Spam Catcher" >To: spam-catcher@adept.org >Do NOT send email to the address listed above or >you will be added to a blacklist! >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >