On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Alex. > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:34:22PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Graham Murray wonders: > > > > Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today > > > is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has > > > rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change, > > > then the next day a new version was put in the tree, then there was an > > > -r1 release and today there is yet another use flag change. > > > Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now, so > > the cups USE flag has been removed. > > What??? I run lprng on my machine, not cups. Does that mean that > libreoffice will be broken the next time I update? Please tell me I've > misunderstood what you've just said. > > Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, its > wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration. Surely I'm > not going to be faced by the choice of abandoning libreoffice or using > cups? > > > I would have preferred if the ebuild got a -r2 so I could simply mask > > it, as compiling it again would not change a thing when the cups USE > > flag was enabled already. > > > Wonko > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > > I'm afraid that cups is now a mandatory dependency for libreoffice, just check in the ebuild. libreoffice will still work without cups running though, you just can't print... :(
--Brennan
