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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:40:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>
To:        advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Building OO from ports.
Message-ID:  <20031010163900.H53164@fubar.adept.org>
In-Reply-To: <200310110032.58527.dgw@liwest.at>
References:  <20031010200342.87516.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com> <200310110032.58527.dgw@liwest.at>

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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

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