Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:48:28 -0500 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> To: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Word processor for 6.1 Message-ID: <200609041548.29027.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <10609041855.AA19240@pluto.rain.com> References: <10609040708.AA17675@pluto.rain.com> <200609040750.30916.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <10609041855.AA19240@pluto.rain.com>
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On Monday 04 September 2006 13:55, Perry Hutchison wrote: > > > Try to save yourself as much pain as possible. Building openoffice > > from ports tends to fall in the category of pain. > > So it would seem :( > > I thought the whole point of the Ports Collection was to avoid this > sort of problem. That's the idea, and in most cases that's true. The ports system just keeps getting better and better. However,there are some ports that are just a pain to build and install. Either they can be tricky to do, they take a really long time, or both. OpenOffice falls in there. I'll avoid building it and use a pre-built package. After you install it, you'll find that it shows up for an update because two lines were swapped in the Makefile. Since I don't care to accidentally be rebuilding openoffice because of this, I have +IGNOREME in /var/db/pkg/en-openoffice.org-US-2.0.3, it doesn't show up as needing an upgrade. Don
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