Beso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted
below, on  Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:05:46 +0000:

> does it really worth to compile OOo instead of just downloading the bin
> version?! the last time i've tried it the ammount of space taken
> "hostage", the slowness of compilation and the really small improvement
> in speed (as well as the other deps to install) made me chose the 32bit
> precompiled bin package.

I wouldn't personally know, as I've never installed any version of it.  I 
do have kspread installed as I needed it to view an MS Excel file awhile 
back, but that's about it.

If I was still running multilib and I needed OOo, I'd probably merge the 
32-bit precompiled, just because I don't consider it worth the trouble, 
here.  However, since I'm running no-multilib now (and haven't regretted 
it yet, rather the opposite as it's less hassle AND less compile time on 
gcc and glibc, among others) and as AFAIK there's no 64-bit precompiled 
version.

But since OOo is GTK based and I'm a KDE (3.x, so far) guy, I'd certainly 
try koffice or its individual components (such as the kspread I already 
have merged) first.  I have GTK installed, but only for pan and now 
firefox, and every once in awhile, I consider switching off of pan and 
back to konqueror exclusively, and killing GTK on my box.  But I haven't 
yet.

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