Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-07 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:20:06 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:07:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I think this system was designed by the previous owner of my house, who put light switches inside cupboards. You're lucky, I got a booze cupboard build in front of

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:56:13 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: What I failed to mention was that the cupboard was often in a different room. The switch for the living room wall lights is still in the kitchen cupboard, behind the pickled onions :-O I would, instead of rewiring it all,

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan Mackenzie writes: Hi, Alex. Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change, then the next

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:12:08 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Printing is one thing that just seems to work much better on Windows. This is becoming better, it looks like the LibreOffice and Firefox print dialogs allow to set print features like the resolution. But other applications, like

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:07:34 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:12:08 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Printing is one thing that just seems to work much better on Windows. This is becoming better, it looks like the LibreOffice and Firefox print dialogs allow

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:07:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I think this system was designed by the previous owner of my house, who put light switches inside cupboards. You're lucky, I got a booze cupboard build in front of the main distribution box. What I failed to mention was that the

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 September 2011, at 10:12, Alex Schuster wrote: ... Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration. Surely I'm not going to be faced by the choice of abandoning libreoffice or using cups? ... I

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 6 September 2011, at 10:12, Alex Schuster wrote: ... Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration.  Surely I'm not going to

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alex. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:12:08AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Alan Mackenzie writes: Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now, so the cups USE flag has been removed. What??? I run lprng on my machine, not cups. Does that mean that libreoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:25:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: Isn't CUPS really bug and bloaty and horrible? It has it's own web-interface, which one doesn't seem able to disable - why can't I just configure text files? You can, or at least you could the last time I tried it. The web interface only does

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 6 September 2011, at 10:12, Alex Schuster wrote: ... Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration.  Surely I'm not going to

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:12:08 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Printing is one thing that just seems to work much better on Windows. This is becoming better, it looks like the LibreOffice and Firefox print dialogs allow to set print features like the resolution. But

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 22:27:38 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I think this system was designed by the previous owner of my house, who put light switches inside cupboards. Hmmm... weird, but I sort of like that. Gives your house a special touch. How cool is this, a visitor asks you to turn on

[gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Graham Murray
Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change, then the next day a new version was put in the tree, then there was an -r1 release and

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 05.09.2011 23:00, schrieb Graham Murray: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change, then the next day a new version was put

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change, then the next day a new version was put in the tree, then

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:34:22 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now, so the cups USE flag has been removed. I would have preferred if the ebuild got a -r2 so I could simply mask it, as compiling it again would not change a thing when the

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:34:22 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now, so the cups USE flag has been removed. I would have preferred if the ebuild got a -r2 so I could simply mask it, as compiling it again

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alex. On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:34:22PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Brennan Shacklett
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Alex. On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:34:22PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86