From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 04:49:54 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 AED3416A4B3 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:49:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ajax.achean.com (ajax.achean.com [212.87.82.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F004143F3F for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:49:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon.mercer@achean.com) Received: from menelaus.office.achean.com (dsl-217-155-191-93.zen.co.uk [217.155.191.93]) by ajax.achean.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9BBnFFi031166 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:49:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jon.mercer@achean.com) Received: from achean.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])h9BBn6XB000772 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:49:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jon.mercer@achean.com) Message-ID: <3F87EE31.7050105@achean.com> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:49:05 +0100 From: Jon Mercer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030806 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: <20031010200342.87516.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com> <200310110032.58527.dgw@liwest.at> <20031010163900.H53164@fubar.adept.org> <3F87E487.2050003@sitetronics.com> In-Reply-To: <3F87E487.2050003@sitetronics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.55-achean_mailfilter_v1.00 X-Spam-Report: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been attachedunwanted mail in future. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. from ports, especially on my laptop, but I've never encountered a problem issue because of resident gnome1 software and libraries, but not a major issue to someone with moderate abilities. [...] Content analysis details: (-2.60 points, 5 required) X_ACCEPT_LANG (-0.1 points) Has a X-Accept-Language header IN_REP_TO (-0.5 points) Has a In-Reply-To header non-spam MUA (Mozilla)headeremail attributionquoted email text REPLY_WITH_QUOTES (-0.5 points) Reply with quoted text X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55-achean_mailfilter_v1.00 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) 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 11:49:54 -0000 Both KDE and OO take a phenomenal time to build from ports, especially on my laptop, but I've never encountered a problem with either. Installing gnome2 for the first time was more of an issue because of resident gnome1 software and libraries, but not a major issue to someone with moderate abilities. Whoever told you that may have had a bad experience in the past. Ports is the great benefit of FreeBSD, and one of the reasons I recommend it to clients over Linux. Jon Mercer Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > 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" >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ___ ___ | | / | | / | | / /| | / / | | / / | | _____ / / ____ ____ ___ | | / /__| | / ___ \ / /__ / __ \ / _ | | /__ | | / ____ | / / /_/ / ___ \ / /_/ / / / | | / ___ \ | | / / | | / / __ / / \ \ | ___/__ / / / / / / \ \ | | / / | | | |__/ / / / / / | \__/ / | |_| | / / / / | | /__\ /___\ \_____/ /__| /__| \_____/ \__/|_| /__| /__| | | | | www.achean.com | | ============== | | Jon Mercer jon.mercer@achean.com | | | | Mobile 07973 256496 | | | | Tel. 0117 9561211 | | | | Fax 0117 9565637 | +----------------------------------------------------------------+