[Bug 238629] editors/libreoffice does NOT need gpatch

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            Bug ID: 238629
           Summary: editors/libreoffice does NOT need gpatch
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Keywords: easy, patch
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: office at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: mi at FreeBSD.org
          Assignee: office at FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(office at FreeBSD.org)

Created attachment 205147
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=205147&action=edit
Remove the dependency on devel/patch

Long ago we were allowing OpenOffice to build its own versions of various
software packages -- instead of making it use what FreeBSD's ports provided --
and it needed patch(1) to do the building.

We no longer do that in the libreoffice port -- and, hopefully -- not in
OpenOffice either.

But we still have the gpatch dependency -- and the upstream still have a
configure-script verify, that the patch(1) is GNU-compatible (only on SunOS,
FreeBSD, and Darwin, though).

It is not needed however -- which is especially important now, when gpatch is
found to have (yet unfixed) security holes
(https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/791841a3-d484-4878-8909-92ef9ce424f4.html).

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