Excessive dependancies for OpenOffice 2.0 port

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:23:47PM -0600, Chris wrote:
> 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?

Yes, whenever it's buildable.

Kris
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