--- Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i downloaded the Oooqs 1.0 quick-load front-end for
> Open Office (tar.gz)
> & its configure chokes on several QT .h files (eg 
> qstyle.h ),
> which are to be found in the  libqt3-devel  RPM.

oooqs is already in contrib, you don't need to build
it yourself

> when i tried to select that for installation (both
> in MCC & using  urpmi ),
> it warned me that it needed to install Mysql &
> Postgresql .
> when i then tried to install the RPM from my
> Mandrake 9.0rc1 CD2 ,
> MCC SPI told me that everything was already
> installed (not so!)
> &  urpmi  told me it couldn't find Mysql &
> Postgresql (quite likely).
> 
> why do i have to install Mysql & Postgresql, which i
> don't need?

Because mysql and postgresql haven't been packaged
correctly, so to get the -devel stuff for those that
it (qt-devel) needs, it needs the base packages too.

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