On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:04:01 -0800
Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:25:59PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> > Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:19 -0600
> > > Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:05:46PM +0200, Aldis Berjoza wrote:
> > >>> I and some other FreeBSD users are wondering why there are no
> > >>> OpenOffice.org package available on FreeBSD Mirrors?
> > >> OpenOffice is one of our most complex packages, and, depending on which
> > >> package node it builds on, can take nearly a day to run. That plus the
> > >> large number of dependencies it has makes it hard to build.
> > >>
> > >> I know that this is not a very satisfactory answer. I promise to once
> > >> again look into the problem.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Does the fact that it uses java cause a problem? Used to be that the
> > > user had to manually download files from Sun, which would be impractical
> > > for an automated run.
> > >
> >
> > If it depended on OpenJDK by default it wouldn't be a problem. I do not
> > know whether it does.
> >
>
>
>
> This has been bugging me for years. If there are *open*
> version of things-Java, why-oh-why don't we use them by
> default?
>
> Sun promised to make automatic download of its stuff available
> years ago -- Or am I hallucinating?
>
Looks like all the OpenOffice ports have a line like this:
JAVA_VENDOR= freebsd bsdjava openjdk
It's been a long time since I installed OpenOffice from scratch.
---
Gary Jennejohn
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