OpenOffice.org packages

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:04:01 -0800
Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:25:59PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> > Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:19 -0600
> > > Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:05:46PM +0200, Aldis Berjoza wrote:
> > >>> I and some other FreeBSD users are wondering why there are no
> > >>> OpenOffice.org package available on FreeBSD Mirrors?
> > >> OpenOffice is one of our most complex packages, and, depending on which
> > >> package node it builds on, can take nearly a day to run.  That plus the
> > >> large number of dependencies it has makes it hard to build.
> > >>
> > >> I know that this is not a very satisfactory answer.  I promise to once
> > >> again look into the problem.
> > >>
> > > 
> > > Does the fact that it uses java cause a problem?  Used to be that the
> > > user had to manually download files from Sun, which would be impractical
> > > for an automated run.
> > > 
> > 
> > If it depended on OpenJDK by default it wouldn't be a problem. I do not
> > know whether it does.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 	This has been bugging me for years.  If there are *open*
> 	version of things-Java, why-oh-why don't we use them by
> 	default?
> 
> 	Sun promised to make automatic download of its stuff available
> 	years ago -- Or am I hallucinating? 
> 

Looks like all the OpenOffice ports have a line like this:
	JAVA_VENDOR=    freebsd bsdjava openjdk

It's been a long time since I installed OpenOffice from scratch.

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Gary Jennejohn