> > > Understood and agreed. For OO I couldn't quite get up the interest to > > start building from scratch though. Something like 450MB of things to > > download and then what, do it again in a week or two? Not worth it for > > my needs. >
Did you delete the source out of your /usr/portage/distfiles directory? If not, it will still be there and you wont have to download it again. > That shouldn't be a problem with the release frequency of OOo, with LO > that's more of a problem. > > At least with OOo/LO you get a better program for the effort of > compiling, the open source version of VirtualBox is crippled :( > > FWIW I hit an unresolved build bug in OO (which had previously built ok, so was triggered by an update in another package), so I switched to LO which didnt have the issue.
