anybody know about a 3.01 package *With* browser?
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Mon Apr 6 07:16:45 PDT 2009
Oliver Fromme writes:
> > > I'm not sure why there's so much depenencies, but if anyone wants
> > > me to post it, I want to know.
> >
> > Because OOo declines to re-invent the wheel? Some of these are
> > easy to understand if you know almost nothing about programming -
> > the fonts for example. Others, like cairo, pango, expat, and CUPS,
> > are established libraries for dealing with things like text
> > input/rendering, graphics, and printing. "gtk" is the GUI tookkit.
> > What I don't understand is things like pciids-20090224.
>
> It's required by hal. About half of the dependencies seem
> to be Xorg-related things (fonts, libraries, protocols).
> There are also dependencies for supporting various graphics
> formats (png, jpeg, tiff) and scripting languages (python,
> perl). Well, it all adds up.
So it's not just things that OO depends on directly, but things
those programs depend on, /ad incipio/. That's ... confusing.
Robert Huff
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