On Friday 06 December 2002 10:33 am, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > Why is it in contrib then ? Things like that only complicates life. :-(
Not sure about Open Office specifically, but IRAF, for example is in contrib, because although it is open-source *in principle*, no one has managed to build it from source on Debian (because it's a pain). Upstream does provide a binary built for Linux which runs on Debian (they probably actually built it on Slackware in that case, given that they provide a separate Red Hat version). Similarly, Open Office is a bear to build from source (the full sources are huge -- much larger than the program), so it may be in the same fix. There's also some argument going on over inclusion of modules which use LZW compression (on debian-legal). I never found out what the end result was (I don't really use OOo). But, yeah, it does make things complicated. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
