On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:02, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
> I heard somewhere someone saying that you need some Gb for temporary
> files when compiling OOo on Gentoo. That was what I was worried about
That's correct, but you do not have to compile OOo because there is a binary 
download available.

*  app-office/openoffice-bin
      Latest version available: 1.1.4
      Latest version installed: 1.1.4
      Size of downloaded files: 78,265 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.openoffice.org/
      Description: OpenOffice productivity suite
      License:     || ( LGPL-2 SISSL-1.1 )

> > /tmp should only be used by the system, *not* by the user. As such, it
> > only needs to be a max of 256MB or so. Users should always be using
> > /var/tmp for their own purposes.

Portage is a user in this context.

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C. S.

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