Excessive dependancies for OpenOffice 2.0 port

[Chris]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:18:09PM -0500, Mikhail T. wrote:
> 
>>I'm surprised, you are not objecting to the port's building of its OWN
>>C and C++ compiler, as well as a bunch of "small" things like STLport,
>>db4, expat (yes, it depends on it, but builds its own too!), sablotron,
>>xmlsec, etc. etc.
>>
>>The vendor, with its requirement to run on the odd OS-es like Solaris
>>-- with no good standard way of adding 3rd party packages -- has some
>>excuse for providing all these.
>>
>>The FreeBSD port-maintainers have none...
> 
> 
> I don't think you realise how much work it is to keep OO building even
> with stock vendor sources, let alone with third party versions of
> those packages.
> 
> Kris

Curious - is there a pkg_add version of OOo?

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Chris

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